Textile fragment

Museum number:

16-20165

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Accession number:

Acc.4649

Description:

Textile fragment. Single incomplete piece of twined cloth. Off-white to tan. Much of cloth has single rows of twining ~3-4mm apart, each twist enclosing two threads. Twined rows pushed together in some places. _See acc. #4594._ ~39cm x ~35cm.

Donor:

Ann Lafferty Pfeiffer

Collection place:

Huaca Prieta, Department of La Libertad, Northern Peru

Verbatim coll. place:

Peru

Culture or time period:

Preceramic Period, ancient Peru

Collector:

Ann Lafferty Pfeiffer

Collection date:

1964-1965

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Textile samples

Accession date:

September 15, 1994

Context of use:

Textile fragment.

Department:

South America (except Ancient Peru)