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Skirt
Peruvian (Paracas)
Early Intermediate, Phase 1B (?)
A.D. 50–100
Object Place: Peru, Paracas, South Coast
Medium/Technique
Wool plain weave with stem-stitch embroidery; oblique interlacing; cross-knit loop-stitch (ties)
Dimensions
Skirt: 50.8 x 289.8 cm (20 x 114 1/8 in.)
Ties: 8.8 x 101.5 cm (3 7/16 x 39 15/16 in.); 8.8 x 99 cm (3 7/16 x 39 in.)
Ties: 8.8 x 101.5 cm (3 7/16 x 39 15/16 in.); 8.8 x 99 cm (3 7/16 x 39 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number16.30
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionGround: dark green woolen cloth. Design: along lower edge, and right hand end a border with human figures, unfinished, worked with wool, in crewel stitch. The ground of the border worked solidly in golden brown. Similar figures worked in needle coiling decorate tie-tapes, in green, crimson, light blue, white and brown.
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."