Textile

Museum number:
16-20299
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Alternate number:
MVC-0356 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Band (fragment); 49 cm l x 3.5 cm w. red and natural white warp; white warp face design of connected ovals with small dots overall; supplementary weft bands 1 cm w. in red, yellow, green, pink, and blue.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Peru attrib.
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Weft [reassign] and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
length 49 centimeters and width 3.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: good but fraying some at ends.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 16-20299, described as Band (fragment); 49 cm l x 3.5 cm w. red and natural white warp; white warp face design of connected ovals with small dots overall; supplementary weft bands 1 cm w. in red, yellow, green, pink, and blue.

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