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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