Loin Cloth
Textile Fragment
29998
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29998 |
| 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 | Cotton | Wool |
| Description | tapestry/bobin weave, zoomorphic. Design: interlocking birds, fish and cats heads. With five bars of bobbin weave introduced. Rectangular cloth (fragment of) with 5 bands/stripes of a single-sided bobbin weave (floats on verso). This weaving appears to be over the plain weave base. Remnants of a needle-knitted edge. Evidence of what appears to be a join thread along one of the long edges. According to the catalogue card, this is a part of a "loin cloth". Color(s): White plain weave, woven section is red, yellow, and black. |
| Length | 31 cm |
| Width | 43 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1129B - Field No SF |
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