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Peruvian, Early Nasca
Early Intermediate Period
about 200
Object Place: Peru, South Coast
Medium/Technique
Cotton and wool cross-knit looping
Dimensions
Other (Height x width: part d): 5 x 15 cm (1 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Other (Height x width: part e): 8 x 9 cm (3 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Height x width: part c): 6 11/16 x 1 9/16 in. (17 x 4 cm)
Other (Height x width: part e): 8 x 9 cm (3 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Height x width: part c): 6 11/16 x 1 9/16 in. (17 x 4 cm)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number16.37a-e
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionBrown cotton core with tubular needlecoiled fabric of wool. Design: narrow band of crimson with birds worked in green, blue, yellow neutral violet and orange, from which hang bell-shaped flowers worked in the same colors. Very brittle, twisted colored fringe preserved in places.
ProvenanceOctober, 1915, sold by Enrique Mestanza, Pisco, Peru, to Julio C. Tello, Francisco Graña Reyes, and Gonzalo Carbajal, Lima [see note 1]; 1915/1916, sold by Julio Tello to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA [see note 2]; 1916, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 3, 1916)
NOTES:
[1] On the sale of the Mestanza collection, see Anne Paul, ed., Paracas: Art and Architecture (Iowa City, 1991), pp. 36-38 and Richard Daggett, A Tello-Centric History of Peruvian Archaeology part 2, pp. 360, 386-387. [2] Ross purchased a number of textiles and fragments from Tello (probably acting for Carbajal) between December 27, 1915 and January 8, 1916. When they were accessioned by the MFA (accession nos. 16.30-16.42), they were mistakenly believed to have been found by Tello himself "[in a cemetery] three or four miles south of Pisco."
NOTES:
[1] On the sale of the Mestanza collection, see Anne Paul, ed., Paracas: Art and Architecture (Iowa City, 1991), pp. 36-38 and Richard Daggett, A Tello-Centric History of Peruvian Archaeology part 2, pp. 360, 386-387. [2] Ross purchased a number of textiles and fragments from Tello (probably acting for Carbajal) between December 27, 1915 and January 8, 1916. When they were accessioned by the MFA (accession nos. 16.30-16.42), they were mistakenly believed to have been found by Tello himself "[in a cemetery] three or four miles south of Pisco."