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Object Number 46-77-30/10370
Display Title Textile, slit tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Textile portion; offset rows of yellow birds with hooked black beaks woven in slit tapestry with camelid wefts (2s-plied) on brown cotton (2s-plied) ground. A similar cloth (now missing) was originally seamed along each weft selvage. Warp ends cut and stitched back into fabric. One warp, two weft selvages. Warp: brown cotton, (2s-plied), 7 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber textile, plainweave, repeating rows of birds, slit tapestry
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Chancay?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast?
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 33.5 x 20.5 cm (13 3/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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