Textile Fragment

39-11-3

From: Peru | Paracas Peninsula

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 39-11-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Paracas
Provenience Peru | Paracas Peninsula
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Wool
Description

Possibly a belt, incomplete at both ends. Tubular knitted with colors floated on the inside [back] when not used in the design. Design: heads with interlocking serpent bodies, and boxed vats [one within another] in the triangular spaces. Yellow, blue and green on red ground.

Length 38.1 cm
Depth 15.2 cm
Credit Line Exchange with Brooklyn Museum, 1939
Other Number 33266 - Other Number

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