Poncho Fragment
29600
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29600 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Iconography | Human | Headdress |
| Description | Gobelin pieces. Part of a poncho. Blocks, each with human figures wearing double crescent headdress, and grasping in each hand a smaller figure by the hair. Design inverted alternately Patchwork grouping of 7 tapestry fragments. 6 square blocks which feature a human figure wearing a headdress grasping in each hand a smaller figure by the hair. 1 block that is long and rectangular with an unclear design. The joins connecting these blocks are not finely done by comparison to the weaving (repair?). Color(s): Brown, red, off-white, and blue. |
| Length | 35 cm |
| Width | 45 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 975A - Field No SF |
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