Loin Cloth
Textile Fragment
30001
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 30001 |
| 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 | Decorated. Loom weave: five decorative vertical single faced bands incorporated in 1.25" from top on seperated loom string. Horizontal slits not sewed. Brown and yellow. 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. There are slits in the textile at the start of the bands/stripes. Knitted edges. According to the catalogue card, this is a part of a "loin cloth". Color(s): Brown, red (?) and black. |
| Length | 32.5 cm |
| Width | 40 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1129C - Field No SF |
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