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Border, weft-patterned
Object Number 46-77-30/10456
Display Title Border, weft-patterned
Descriptions
Object Description Border; four widths of brown cotton 1-1 plainweave. Across bottom is a border (5 cm.) with diagonal rows of birds woven with red, yellow, brown, white camleid, (z-2s) weft floats, substituted. Above and below are bands with narrow stripes of red and yellow weft-faced plainweave, warps tripled. Separately woven weft fringed band (1 cm.) in tan cotton (warp: s; weft: z-2s) sewn to edge of border band. Camelid wefts, now almost completely disintegrated, were used as supplementary wefts (patterning undiscernable) and weft fringe along one selvage. One warp, nine weft selvages.
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, broder, brown, patterned band at edge
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Chancay
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Lima Region / Lima Province / Lima / Vista Alegre
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 29.5 x 139 cm (11 5/8 x 54 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1

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