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Object Number 46-77-30/7369
Display Title Mantle, supplementary weft
Descriptions
Object Description Shawl with brocaded corners - staff bearing figures; weft faced wool border with interlocked pattern: Mantle: plainweave tan cotton (2s-plied), four stepped corners woven with supplementary camelid weft floats, two red, two purple. Each corner has four rows of repeated figure: profile jaguar holdin staff, frontal figure with staff and trophy head, bird-head appendages. Across warp selvages are borders of red camelid weft-faced plainweave and a row of felines and birds in complementary weft float weave, with discontinuous wefts: purple plus red, blue, dark green or yellow. Two widths seamed together. Four selvages.
Inventory Description Organic, woven mantle, cotton plainweave, embroidered stepped design
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
  • Raw Material
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Huari?
  • Tiahuanaco
  • Late Middle Horizon
  • Late Coastal
  • Nazca
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Nazca Province / Loma Huelo
Additional Geographic Terms Peru, South coast; Nazca
Materials Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 140 x 110 cm (55 1/8 x 43 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
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