Embroidered cloth with sixteen stylized condors(?), band borders of thirteen invert-repeat bird motifs above and below, and three selvages. Red, yellow-cream, blue and light brown dyed alpaca on brown cotton plain weave ground. Condors have triangular tails, diamond-shaped eyes, and three crests. (Incomplete object.)

Tuft of loose cords made of plant fibre and bindings of camelid wool threads. Cords have knots at the ends and threads are forming circular weave patterns and are intertwined with the cords. Yellow-brown, red-brown, green, grey-brown, blue, purple-brown and orange-red dyed wool. Incomplete.

Embroidered cloth with design of figures holding staffs to front and wearing a plumed headdress, two triangular projections. Red, brown, purple, yellow-cream and white alpaca wool on dark blue cotton ground. Made up of fragments of a larger piece.

Fragment of an interlocking tapestry tunic. Approximately half of front-left side of a tunic with part of central selvage. Six bands of winged figures alternating with squares of four triangles on seven vertical stripes. Alpaca wool threads (cream, yellow-brown, red-brown, blue, brown, and black) on cotton warps.

Cloth. Upper portion has stepped blocks of slit tapestry and plain weave. Repeated geometricised and diagonal reverse bird motif on tapestry. The same motif appears in diagonal bands in border and simplified version is used on yellow tab fringe. Systematic shifts in colour combinations. Multicoloured alpaca wefts on cotton warps in yellow, blue, red-brown, brown and cream. Restored.

Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Gift of Mrs. Michael de Havenon