Loin Cloth
Textile Fragment
30004
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 30004 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From the loosened soil |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Iconography | Birds |
| Description | Decorated with stripes of bobbin weave in bird designs, between fine tapestry weave. Fragment of woven cloth with 9 bands/stripes of a single-sided bobbin weave (floats on verso). This weaving appears to be over the plain weave base. A small attached fragment of plain weave cloth joined to this cloth along the long edge. According to the catalogue card, this is a part of a "loin cloth". Color(s): White, yellow, red and brown. |
| Length | 22 cm |
| Width | 40 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 315T - Field No SF |
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