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Object Number 46-77-30/7372
Display Title Tunic, warp float
Descriptions
Object Description Warp pattern salmon colored cotton poncho shirt: Tunic: warp-faced with very subtle all-over diamond design done with warp floats. Two adjacent warps float over three wefts. Two warp lengths (180 x 37 cm.) seamed with overcast stitches along weft selvages leaving neck opening (18 cm.) and arm-holes (12 cm.). Arm-holes decorated with edge of cross-knit looping with geometric design in red, yellow, green, dark purple camelid (2s-plied). Warp, weft: salmon cotton, (2s-plied).
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, tunic, red, patterned weave, fringed bottom, embroidered
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Early Intermediate period
  • Nazca?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Nazca Province / Loma Huelo
Additional Geographic Terms Peru, South coast; Nazca
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 89.5 x 75 cm (35 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1

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