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Object Number
63-12-30/8409
Display Title
Border, mantle, embroidered
Descriptions
Object Description
Cloth of 1-1 plainweave brown cotton (z-2s) completely coverd with stem stitch embroidery, in four repeats of the "Oculate Being", a large-eyed, "smiling" feline with trophy head appendages, done in linear style: dark blue, dark green, yellow, on red ground. Along one edge, a weft fringe of replied camelid: red, dark blue, dark green, yellow. At top of fringe is cross-knit looping with s-motif in same camelids.
Inventory Description
Organic, woven fiber, textile, embroidered border, multicolored, figurative, fri
Classification
- Woven Fiber
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Paracas Necropolis
- Early Horizon 10
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America
/
Peru
/
Ica Region
/
Pisco Province
/
Paracas?
/
Paracas Necropolis?
Additional Geographic Terms
South Coast
Materials
Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 67 x 19.5 cm (26 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
Prof. Herbert Joseph Spinden
Donor
Mrs. Margaret Castle Tozzer
(02/26/1963)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63-12-30/8411A | Organic, woven textile border, mantle, warp-striped, fringed |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8412A | Mantle, embroidered |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8408 | Border, mantle, embroidered |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8412B | Mantle, embroidered |
Raw Material
Woven Fiber |
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8405 | Mantle, embroidered, fragment |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8413 | Mantle, embroidered |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8404 | Mantle, embroidered, fragment |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8407 | Mantle, embroidered, fragment |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 63-12-30/8406 | Mantle, embroidered, fragment |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Paracas Necropolis?
| |
| 38-28-30/4140 | Shoulder poncho, embroidered |
Woven Fiber
|
Paracas Necropolis
| |
| 979-17-30/10065 | Mantle, embroidery, fragment |
Woven Fiber
Raw Material |
Peru
| |
| 63-12-30/8415 | Mantle, embroidered, fragment |
Raw Material
Woven Fiber |
Paracas Necropolis?
|