Loin Cloth
29505
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29505 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | from Mummy |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Iconography | Bird |
| Description | Bound at top with coarse strip. Decorated across back with broad brocaded band; little birds in diamonds. Single web. All selvages visible. A looser weave strip with ties added to top of this rectangular cloth. Embroidered band with three sections (two narrow bands surrounding a thicker band with diamonds). Color(s): Off-white base with applied embroidery in dark brown/black. |
| Length | 93 cm |
| Width | 52 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1100B - Field No SF |
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