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Object Number 63-12-30/8413
Display Title Mantle, embroidered
Descriptions
Object Description Mantle fragment of 1-1 plainweave green camelid (z-2s) completely covered with stem stitch embroidery with maze-like figure of interlocking appendages flanked by "smiling" heads and small felines. Designs are built up in parallel lines of dark blue, dark green, yellow, on red ground (camelid, z-2s). Along one side are smaller versions of same designs. Along other edge, weft fringe of replied camelid, red, blue, green, yellow. At top of fringe are a few rows of cross-knit looping.
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, figurative, geometric designs, red, frin
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Early Horizon 10
  • Paracas Necropolis
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Pisco Province / Paracas? / Paracas Necropolis?
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 29 x 25.5 cm (11 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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