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Object Number
48-37-30/7185
Display Title
Textile, embroidered
Descriptions
Object Description
Embroidered textile fragment - plain weave embroidered in chain stitch; small figure repeated; wool embroidery; brown cotton, embraidery rose-red, gold, purple, blue, black & white: Two incomplete panels of 1-1 plainweave joined along warp selvages. Stem stitch embroidery figures (6 cm., height) aligned in diagonals; each shown in profile holding staff, wearing headdress, spiney projections on back side; gold, pink, black, white, or pink, gold, purple on blue, black, and white. Figures crudely worked. Warp: (z-2s), 12 epcm. Weft: (z-2s), 15 epcm.
Inventory Description
Organic, woven fiber, plainweave brown cotton, multicolored embroidered figures
Classification
- Woven Fiber
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Late Central Coast
- Middle Horizon 1
- Early Intermediate period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America
/
Peru
/
Lima Region
/
Huaura Province?
/
<City>
/
Huacho?
Additional Geographic Terms
Central Coast; Huara Valley?
Materials
Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 83 x 27.7 cm (32 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Quantity
1
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