Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment Item Number: 34.562.1 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Size: undetermined or adult; probable wearer: undetermined or male. Vertical cotton warp, cotton weft. Camelid fiber embroidery in pink, blue, yellow, green, white. Plain weave. The iconography represented is of birds with backward turned heads. Similar fragments can be found in the collections of the Textile Museum (91.127) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (33.149.102).
Credit Line
George C. Brackett Fund
What
- Name
- Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment
- Identification Number
- 34.562.1
- Type of Item
- textile fragment, border and poncho
- Material
- cotton and camelid fibre
- Overall
- length 15.75 in, width 1.5625 in
Who
- Culture
- Paracas
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
Other
- Classification
- Textile