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Object Number 46-77-30/7392
Display Title Textile, slit tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Cotton & wool tapestry fragment - Kelim multi-colored geometric design: Textile portion of slit tapestry with vertical rows of elongated hexagons. Rows alternately striped Horizontally and solid colored. Warp selvage overcast with red camelid, as is cut warp end. One warp, one weft selvage. Warp: cotton, (2z-plied). Weft: dark blue, green, black, purple, red, yellow, light blue, white camelid, (2s-plied).
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, multiple stripe, plain, diamond shapes
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Rukana
  • Inca
  • Chimú
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Nazca Province
Additional Geographic Terms Peru, South coast; Nazca
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 13 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1940-1944)
Donor Donated by Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer (November 26, 1946)
Donor Donated by Mr. Donald C. Scott (November 26, 1946)

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