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Object Number 46-77-30/10111
Display Title Headdress, slit tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Headdress: inverted triangle with separately woven flat, flared at one end (41 cm., length) suspended from it. Both parts have all-over design of heads with appendages woven in slit tapestry. Heads are white cotton with pink and gold camelid features on brown/black camelid ground (weft: 2s-plied). Bordered with bands of yellow and magenta, and finally a separately woven magenta camelid fringe. Warp: cotton, (2s-plied), 7 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, textile, brown, yellow, red, triangular, figurative, red fringe
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Lima Region / Barranca Province / Pativilca / Acos
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 63 x 45 cm (24 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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