Textile Item Number: Sf835 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Cut square of light brown cotton, woven fabric with a blue brocade design. The brocade area is in the shape of a step triangle and fills over half the fragment. Blue diamond shapes branching off oblique lines fill the step triangle in a regular way. The exact negative image fills the background space. One warp and one weft selvedge are present; the other two edges are cut.
History Of Use
Appears to be a corner of a type of rectangular cloth that is decorated with step triangles in each corner. Complete cloths of this type often have central, deteriorated areas that are consistent with wrapping organic material, perhaps as grave offerings. The corner ornamented cloth is a standard type and occurs from the Middle Horizon (Period ?) to the Late Horizon (Period ?). The yarn structure and the order of interlacing in the brocade are consistent with central coast fabrics of the Late Intermediate Period (Rowe), but similar cloths come from Chincha as well (O'Neale).
Item History
What
- Name
- Textile
- Identification Number
- Sf835
- Type of Item
- textile
- Material
- alpaca wool fibre ? and cotton fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- spun, dyed, woven and plied
- Overall
- height 16.2 cm, width 13.1 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 900 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
- poor
- Accession Number
- 0711/0337