Loin Cloth

29503

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29503
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Technique Embroidered
Iconography Fish
Description

With small embroidered fishes, scattered.

Two webs stitched together to form this loin cloth. Woven pattern (small fish) in weft direction rows. Color(s): White ground fabric, with pink and brown pattern.

Length 88 cm
Width 63 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2092 - Field No SF

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