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Object Number
46-77-30/7377
Display Title
Border, weft-patterned
Descriptions
Object Description
Cotton tapestry fragment - mythical figure design: Border of brown cotton plainweave cloth (now cut away). Row of standing felines, head in profile, body frontal. Eye had "tear mark", appendages surround the head. Weave: three-color complementary weft weave in purple, green, red, gold, blue, white camelid, used discontinuously with interlocking joins. Above and below, broad band of weft-faced plainweave red camelid. One warp, two weft selvages.
Inventory Description
Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, multicolored block pattern band on red
Classification
- Woven Fiber
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Late Coastal
- Nazca
- Huari?
- Tiahuanaco
- Middle horizon
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America
/
Peru
/
Ica Region
/
Nazca Province
/
El Cemetario
Additional Geographic Terms
Peru, South coast: Nazca, south of river inland from
Materials
Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 19 x 56 cm (7 1/2 x 22 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46-77-30/7675 | Textile, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Nazca Province
| |
| 46-77-30/7369 | Mantle, supplementary weft |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Loma Huelo
| |
| 42-12-30/3714 | Border, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Huaura Province
| |
| 42-28-30/4486 | Border, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Nazca Province
| |
| 42-12-30/3193 | Border, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Fortaleza
| |
| 42-12-30/3235 | Mantle, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Huaura Province
| |
| 46-77-30/7365 | Border(?), weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Loma Huelo
| |
| 42-12-30/3411 | Border, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Nazca Province
| |
| 63-12-30/8411A | Organic, woven textile border, mantle, warp-striped, fringed |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 42-12-30/3327 | Border, weft-patterned |
Raw Material
Woven Fiber |
Peru
| |
| 46-77-30/8999 | Border, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Huacho
| |
| 42-12-30/3258 | Border, weft-patterned |
Woven Fiber
|
Huacho?
Casma |