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Object Number 41-52-30/3055
Display Title Mantle, weft-patterned
Descriptions
Object Description Mantle of 1-1 plainweave brown cotton with 8 repeats of large multiple serpent-like creature. Animals worked with red, yellow, gold camelid (z-2s) supplementary weft floats. At each end a bird border with substituted weft floats of camelid: pink, yellow, brown, white, gold, outlined in dark brown. Above and below rows of birds are bands of weft-faced plainweave in red and yellow camelid. Four selvages. Warp: brown cotton, (z-2s). Weft: brown cotton, (z).
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile, brown, red, yellow large figurative designs
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Chimú
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Lima Region / Huaura Province / Huacho
Dimensions Overall: 113 cm (44 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1

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