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Object Number 46-77-30/10537
Display Title Textile, plainweave
Descriptions
Object Description Textile portion of plainweave cotton colored with red-brown pigment. Along one weft selvage, remains of a similar cloth seamed with running stitches. All edges cut and unravelled to form a fringe (1-2 cm., length). Bits of white cotton yarn and vegetal fiber yarn stitched through the cloth near the edge. One weft selvage. Warp: cotton, (2s-plied), 15 epcm. Weft: cotton, (2s-plied), 9 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, textile fragment, plainweave, fringed edges
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Coastal?
  • Late Intermediate Period?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 29 x 29 cm (11 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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