Loin Cloth

33615

From: Peru | Huaca Paraiso

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 33615
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Huaca Paraiso
Culture Area Andean
Locus On the left of the road from Chuquitanta to Marques, near to the stream Chillon
Section American
Materials Wool | Cotton
Description

With cotton warp and woolen weft. Striped and checkered band, made like tapestry into two separate pattern stripes, as if woven. Worked in a peculiar colored pattern strand, that produces in detail only a weftlike design, and at the same time such, as in regular woven material is brought out by the weft thread as in tapestry; however, this pattern thread is applied insofar that the complete colored design, in the direction of the strands, change in color, and is produced at set spacings by arranged pattern threads

Length 33.99 cm
Width 13.67 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 514 - Field No SF

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