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Object Number 42-12-30/3322
Display Title Border, slit tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Border; three cloth widths seamed together, each plainweave brown cotton with slit tapestry border with tab fringe. Border has row of birds: pink, yellow, blue, brown, on magenta ground. Above and below birds are modified step-fet bands, pink and magenta, flanked by bands of weft-faced plainweave. Across bottom, yellow tab fringe. One warp, five weft selvages. Warp: brown cotton, (z-2s), 16 epcm. Weft: brown cotton, (z-2s), 10 epcm.; camelid, (z-2s), 25 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, slit, tab fringe, repeating bird motif,
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Chancay?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast?
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 29.5 x 79 cm (11 5/8 x 31 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1

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