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Object Number 46-77-30/10292
Display Title Tunic, gauze
Descriptions
Object Description Tunic; tan cotton plainweave with spaced rows of gauze crossings on groups of six warps on top and bottom. Composed of two webs seamed up center. Short fringe of yellow camelid stitched across bottom. Two weft selvages. Lower edge and most of one side missing. Warp, weft: (2s-plied).
Inventory Description Organic, textile fragment, partial tunic, brown plainweave, carbonized
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Horizon?
  • Late Intermediate period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Lima Region / Lima Province / Lima / Vista Alegre
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast; Lima, near
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 69 x 43 cm (27 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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