Accession No
1933.668
Description
A long, mulitcoloured embroidered band with fringe from the border of a mantle. Background fabric a salmon pink, embroidered with a variety of composite animal figures, which have snake, cat, bird and lizard characteristics.
Place
Americas; South America; Peru; Paracas
Period
Early Horizon Paracas early Early Intermediate Period
Source
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [monetary donor]; ?Puttick and Simpson [vendor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1933.668
Cultural Affliation
Material
?Cotton; ?Wool; ?Fibre
Local Term
Measurements
150mm x 2mm x 750mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card (not original): 'Long embroidered band, pink ground. '
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (References)
Bushnell, G.H.S. (1963). Peru. London: Thames and Hudson. Pl. 19
Event Date 1963
Author: maa
Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Gallery, textile case, side 15 until 1987
Event Date 1987
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Analysis)
Jane Feltham (June 1991): "South Coast. Early EIP."
Event Date 6/1991
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Jane Feltham: "Paracas band and fringe."
Event Date 6/1991
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
David Beresford-Jones: 'A long mulitcoloured embroidered band from the border of a mantle with a background fabric of salmon pink. Embroidered are a variety of composite animal figures, which have snake, cat, bird and lizard characteristics.'
Event Date 9/3/2006
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Analysis)
The Schmidt Pizarro Project, based at Museo delle Culture in Milan, has tentatively matched this textile fragment to textile fragments held in at least one other museum that are likely part of the same textile, although more research will be done to confirm this. The museum and the object accession number is: 1) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (33.149.28).
Event Date 3/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
A long, mulitcoloured embroidered band with fringe from the border of a mantle. Background fabric a salmon pink, embroidered with a variety of composite animal figures, which have snake, cat, bird and lizard characteristics.
Event Date 28/9/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
FM:136821
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