Headband

29570

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29570
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Technique Braided | Embroidered
Description

Of braided cotton; carded but not spun. With fine tassels with tops embroidered with face on each half. Two double tassels. Red.

White braided cotton headband with red double tassels sewn onto the ends. The red tassels have knitted? Or embroidered? Faces on the top in yellow, green, and brown. Color(s): White, red, yellow, green, and brown.

Length 212 cm
Width 8 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1725 - Field No SF

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