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Textile, weft-patterned
Object Number 37-92-30/1591
Display Title Textile, weft-patterned
Descriptions
Object Description Textile portion of 1-1 plainweave white cotton; along warp heading a border w/diagonal design of birds and waves woven in complementary weft-float weave w/weft substitution. Dark brown, gold camelid (z-2s) outined in white cotton (s-2z); flanking this stripes of weft-faced plainweave brown camelid on four warps. Along warp selvage stitched a separately woven piece of coarse plainweave white cotton ending in warp fringe. Two weft, one warp selvage. Warp: (s), 25 epcm. Weft: (s), 16 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, white plainweave, pattern border, fringe
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Chimu
  • Colonial Period?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / La Libertad Region / Ascope Province / Chicama / El Brujo
Intrasite Surface
Additional Geographic Terms Chicama Valley; Chicama River, north of mouth of
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 50 x 29 cm (19 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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