Headcloth?, Fragment or Mantle, Fragment

Item number 34.1542a-e from the Brooklyn Museum.

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Description

Size: adult; probable wearer: undetermined or male? The textile is woven with a vertical cotton warp and a cotton weft and decorated with camelid fiber embroidery. The remnants of the field and panel are a dark brown plain weave. Decorative embroidery in red, green blue, yellow, khaki and undyed beige runs down a panel at the center of the textile and on four L-shaped corner borders. The missing field cloth may or may not have had an overall pattern. Two sides of the central panel and the inner side of the corner borders have a rick-rack-like border. Mary Frame has noted that the style of this mantle is Paracas Necropolis "block color," with a panel and border design of alternating human figures rendered in blues, browns and yellows; each figure has either a swollen or dented chest. Serpentine streamers ending in animal heads emanate from the figures, which also wear elaborate garments and ornaments including short tunics, arm and leg bands, spondylous shell pendants, and gold head ornaments with danglers in front of the ears. The figures also carry what are probably ceremonial fans. A complete series of figures is visible on the central panel.

Credit Line

Alfred W. Jenkins Fund

Item History

Made between 100 and 200

What

Name: Headcloth?, Fragment or Mantle, Fragment
Identification Number: 34.1542a-e
Type of Item: fragment and or
Material: cotton and camelid fibre
Measurements: “a: 95 11/16 x 5 1/2 in. (243.0 x 14.0 cm) b: 15 3/8 x10 1/16 in. (39.0 x 25.5 cm) c: 14 3/16 x 10 1/16 in. (36 x 25.5 cm) d: 13 3/4 x 10 1/16 in. (35 x 25.5 cm) e: 14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in. (36.0 x 25.0 cm)” ?