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Object Number 42-12-30/3196
Display Title Textile, shaped, plainweave
Descriptions
Object Description Shaped cloth of 1-1 plainweave white cotton. At one end a border of weft-faced plainweave red camelid weft (z-2s) on paired warps. In center of border a band of discontinuous complementary weft weave in blocks of blue/dark brown, red/white, green/dark brown, orange/dark brown (z-2s). Design in these blocks now indecipherable. Cloth: (34 cm., width) one end, (55 cm.) at other. Four selvages. Warp: white cotton, (z-2s), 12-16 epcm. Weft: white cotton, (z-2s), 8 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, textile, white plainweave, red border, multicolored squares
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Central Coast
  • Late Intermediate period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Lima Region / Barranca Province / Fortaleza
Additional Geographic Terms North Coast; Central Coast; Paramonga, vicinity of
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 49 x 55 cm (19 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1

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