Textile

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
TEMP 2018.441
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Accession number:
Acc.4311
Description:
4 x 7 square; white squares with brown spot in middle; lighter pink-brown dots around white squares. From old record: approximately 14 cm. sq. pattern of natural colored diamond with brown center dot. Similar pattern and beige plain diamond inside each square. 4 squares across x 7 squares down of repeat pattern. Most likely used in burial context. Side selvedges are loomed.
Donor:
Charles Eby
Collection place:
Peru
Culture or time period:
Middle Horizon, ancient Peru (800–1100 AD)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Accession date:
March 23, 1988
Department:
Registration
Dimensions:
length 96.5 centimeters and width 59 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile, accession number TEMP 2018.441, described as 4 x 7 square; white squares with brown spot in middle; lighter pink-brown dots around white squares. From old record: approximately 14 cm. sq. pattern of natural colored diamond with brown center dot. Similar pattern and beige plain diamond inside each square. 4 squares across x 7 squares down of repeat pattern. Most likely used in burial context. Side selvedges are loomed.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile, accession number TEMP 2018.441, described as 4 x 7 square; white squares with brown spot in middle; lighter pink-brown dots around white squares. From old record: approximately 14 cm. sq. pattern of natural colored diamond with brown center dot. Similar pattern and beige plain diamond inside each square. 4 squares across x 7 squares down of repeat pattern. Most likely used in burial context. Side selvedges are loomed.

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