Cloth

29864

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29864
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Striped; coarsely woven loom srtipe with squares of borwn worked in with needle or strung on skeleton loom strings on weft. Worked from both ends, center unfinished. Brown, apricot, and white. Probably of later origin.

Rectangular cotton plain weave. Stripes in warp direction. Peach colored enter stripe appears to have had a patchwork design in the middle. On either side of this peach stripe is a section with multiple brown and white stripes (varying in width of stripe). Plant fibers used as header cords and along the sides as loops. Color(s): Peach, white and brown.

Length 51 cm
Width 59 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1267A - Field No SF

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