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Trapezoidal-shaped backrest (a) made of thin willow rods tied together with sinew and edged with red wool cloth. The top of the backrest has a "handle" of deer hide covered with red wool cloth that hangs down in two bands that are woven into the top of the backrest. The handle is used to suspend the backrest from a tripod of wood sticks (b). Condition: good. Some soiling on wool cloth.
Brooklyn Museum Collection
Museum Expedition 1941, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund
Size: adult. Probable wearer: male. Vertical camelid fiber warp. Camelid fiber weft. Camelid fiber repair at shoulder. Tapestry weave with interlocked, occasionally dovetailed weft junctures. Backstrap loom woven. Fringe: camelid fiber separately woven with 2 warps. Ends are looped; sewn onto the unku. The design is of two opposed abstracted animals, possibly felines, executed in red, orange and blue colors. Condition: Good.
Frank Sherman Benson Fund and Henry L. Batterman Fund
Alfred W. Jenkins Fund
Frank Sherman Benson Fund and Henry L. Batterman Fund
Museum Expedition 1941, Frank L. Babbott Fund
Gift of Egizia Modiano
Museum Expedition 1941, Frank L. Babbott Fund