Description:

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A stunning and well preserved textile made from camelid wool fiber (alpaca or llama), featuring a geometric square motif in red, yellow, white, and black. These two registers are cross knit in tight rows while a lengthy fringe of brown braids dangle from the edge, like locks of hair. This mantle may have functioned like a wig and headdress, the wearer would secure the colorful band to their head like a headband- and this was perhaps even part of a mummy bundle. The textile is mounted on a modern black cloth backing that highlights the colorful upper registers. Size (textile): 61" L x 24" W (154.9 cm x 61 cm); (cloth backing): 81" L x 41" W (205.7 cm x 104.1 cm)

Cf. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, accession number 2000.118.11

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, 1995 to 2010; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, acquired from the 1950s to 1960s

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  • Condition: Minor thread pulls and fraying to peripheries, and minor perforations, otherwise well-preserved and choice condition. Mounted on a modern cotton cloth backing.

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