Poncho Fragment

29851B

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29851B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Loom stripe, white, brown, blue and yellow on red ground; central panel plain brown.

Fragment of a woven "poncho". Arm aperture in side seam. One part of the piece is the red loom striped and the other half is a plain weave in cotton; they are joined down the center. The plain weave side is distorted and difficult to read, but there is also a seam also in this section. Color(s): Red, white, blue, brown and yellow.

Length 52 cm
Width 58 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 954C - Field No SF

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