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Textile, interlocked tapestry
Textile, interlocked tapestry
Object Number 42-12-30/3377
Display Title Textile, interlocked tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Cloth with stepped square and hook figures done in discontinuous warp and weft technique; 2-1 plainweave brown or white cotton (warp: s-pairs, 20 ppcm.; weft: s, 12 epcm.) or red camelid (warp: z-2s, 18 epcm.; weft: z-2s, 10 epcm.). Small squares of blue, dark brown, yellow, red accent the larger shapes. Wefts interlocked in some sections, in other slits closed with overhand stitch (white cotton, z-2s).
Inventory Description Organic, textile fragment, brown, red, tan, stepped and squared designs
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Huari?
  • Middle Horizon?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Nazca Province
Additional Geographic Terms Peru, South coast: Nasca
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 80 x 34 cm (31 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1941-1942)
Donor Donated by Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer (1942)
Donor Donated by Mr. Donald C. Scott (1942)

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