Textile Item Number: Sf853 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Piece of medium coarse, painted, cotton cloth. Designs based on oblique lines and hooks are arranged in rows. Some of the major motifs are made up of dotted adjacent squares. All designs are outlined in dark brown and filled in with light brown. The light brown may have been red originally. One weft selvedge is present. Two warp edges are cut. A fourth side is irregularly deteriorated. Z-spun, two plied s yarns.
History Of Use
This may be a fragment of a shroud (Sawyer, fig. 62). The yarn spin and plain weave are standard for the central coast (Rowe). The motifs relate to north coast ones (p.c., Sawyer). The motifs may date to the period of north coast influence on the central coast (c. 1400 C.E.).
Narrative
Chancay or Chimu-Chancay, Late Intermediate Period; 1200-1476 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
The wide range of zigzags and hooks probably derive from serpent motifs.
Item History
What
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 1200 and 1476
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0711/0355