Tassel Item Number: Sf875 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A narrow band in red, and two shades of yellow with a large pendant tassel. A frontal human with a large head and raised hands is repeated five times. The figures are yellow and/or dark yellow against a red background. One end is fragmentary. The main band is worked in overhand knotting. The tassel is wrapped and a stylized feline is needle-woven into the wrapped area. Z-spun, two plied s yarns; tassel yarns z-spun, two ply s, reply z.
History Of Use
May be part of a headband or belt. The compact knotting of this fragment is the same structure as that in two other turbans in this collection (Sf874 and Sf877). Compact knotting is only associated with south coast sites (king).
Iconographic Meaning
The frontal human with arms up has an elongated forehead. This may illustrate skull deformation, a practice that is amply represented at south coast sites of this period like Cabeza Larga. The figures on the tassel combine traits of the feline and Oculate Being, a common practice in this period.
Item History
What
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 601 BCE and 501 BCE
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0711/0377