Poncho Fragment
29610
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29610 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From the loosened soil |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Plain weave with wide tapestry border with narrow weft fringe. Appliqued tapestry and pile weave medallions (heads with fringed tapestry headdress simulating feather headdress) set on sidewise in two rows. Fragment of poncho consists of both a plain weave section and some tapestry elements. There are tapestry medallions (crescent shaped with short fringe) repeated across the poncho. There is also a tapestry segment that has a lobster design. Short fringe along edge. Color(s): Brownish (most likely undyed) plain weave. Tapestry elements are green, red, brown and yellow. |
| Length | 123 cm |
| Width | 48 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 260 - Field No SF |
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