Border Item Number: Sf867 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Small rectangle of brown cotton cloth veneered on one face with stem stitch embroidery. Frontal view of brown bodied creature with yellow and green wings and blue ears set against a red background. Two adjacent finished edges and two cut edges. Z-spun, and two plied s yarns.
History Of Use
The border fragment belongs to a garment of the type found in the Paracas necropolis burials. Numerous garments, some in matched sets of kilts, mantles, shoulder poncho and loincloth are found together in a single mummy bundle; together with pelts, fans, and other small articles. Textiles of this type appear to have been made specifically for elite burials (Dwyer), as they appear not to have been used. Some are unfinished.
Iconographic Meaning
The figure may be a bat (p.c., A.R. Sawyer) or an anthropomorphized version of one. Bats are depicted in the earlier Chavinoid Style but their meaning is unclear.
Item History
What
- Name
- Border
- Identification Number
- Sf867
- Type of Item
- border
- Material
- cotton fibre and alpaca wool fibre ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- spun, woven, embroidered, dyed and plied
- Overall
- height 5.2 cm, width 2.7 cm, depth 0.02 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 301 BCE and 201 BCE
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- poor
- Current Location
- Case 89
- Accession Number
- 0711/0369