Loin Cloth
Textile Fragment
29997
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29997 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Covered in recent time. From a mummy |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wool |
| Description | Tapestry, Striped. With stripe of single faced bobbin weave. Yellow, brown and white Fragment of woven cloth with 2 wide rows and 8 narrower rows of a single-sided bobbin weave (floats on verso). This weaving appears to be over the plain weave base. Two edges have needle-knitted binding. Evidence of what appears to be a join to a plain weave cloth along one of the long edges (small fragment of plain weave visible). According to the catalogue card, this is a part of a "loin cloth". Color(s): Brown, red and yellow. |
| Length | 30 cm |
| Width | 42 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1129G - Field No SF |
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