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Border(?), weft-patterned
Border(?), weft-patterned
Object Number 46-77-30/7365
Display Title Border(?), weft-patterned
Descriptions
Object Description Cotton & wool band, probably cut from a shawl; interlocked weft pattern; Tiahuanaco animal type figures, green, blue, red, light blue and yellow: Border(?) cut from larger cloth. Weft-faced plainweave in red camelid (z-spun) flanks central band of complementary weft-patterned weave. Profile feline repeated alternately in dark purple on yellow, green, red or turquoise (all 2s-plied) ground, and in one of these colors on dark purple ground. Purple continuous, other colors discontinuous. Colors reversed on opposite side. One warp, two weft selvages. Warp: white cotton, (s-pairs).
Inventory Description Organic, textile border, red, multicolored feline design
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Nazca
  • Middle horizon
  • Huari?
  • Tiahuanaco
  • Late Coastal
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Nazca Province / Loma Huelo
Additional Geographic Terms Peru, South coast; Nazca
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 71 x 5.5 cm (27 15/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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46-77-30/7369 Mantle, supplementary weft
Woven Fiber
Raw Material
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Woven Fiber
Peru
Border, weft-patterned
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Woven Fiber
Nazca Province
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Woven Fiber
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Woven Fiber
Nazca Province
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Fabric
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Woven Fiber
Peru
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Fabric
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Woven Fiber
Peru
Border, weft-patterned
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Raw Material
Woven Fiber
Peru
Border, slit tapestry
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Raw Material
Woven Fiber
Peru