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Fragment
Early Late Intermediate Period
A.D. 1000–1476
Object Place: Peru, Lambayeque, North Coast
Medium/Technique
Wool slit tapestry
Dimensions
19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Samuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession Number50.657
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionWhite wool warps and khaki, green, brown, white, yellow and pink wool wefts. Two rectangular fields surrounded by borders decorated with elaborately varied rectangular motifs. Each field contains a figure of a man, facing to the side; he wears an elaborate broad headdress and holds unidentified objects in each hand. Slits stitched from the back. Upper left corner frayed. Resembling pieces in the Berlin collection.
ProvenancePurchased by MFA from Paul Bernheimer, 431 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, April 13, 1950.