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Object Number 973-3-30/8860
Display Title Border, slit tapestry
Descriptions
Object Description Border of slit tapestry depicting four large birds(?) in headdresses, gold, pink, white, black, on red ground (all camelid, z-2s, 34 epcm.). Narrow bands of weft-faced plainweave and extra weft-float patterning. Four selvage. Warp: brown cotton, (z-2s), 8 epcm. Along lower edge is stitched weft-fringe of red camelid (z-2s, 20 cm., length). Two fragments of brown cotton plainweave stitched along upper edge. Warp: (z-2s), 24 epcm. Weft: (z-pairs), 12 ppcm.
Inventory Description Organic, woven textile fragment, repeating figurative design, striped, long frin
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Tiahuanaco?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ancash Region / Huarmey Province / Culebras
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 52.8 cm (12 5/8 x 20 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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