ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Mantle Border Fragments with Bean-Humans

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureNasca

PeriodEarly Intermediate

Date100-200 CE

MediumCamelid fiber

Credit LineGift of Drs. Ann and Robert Walzer

Dimensions13 x 2 x 1 1/2 in. (33 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm)

Object number2002.040.004A/C

Label Text

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation, September 2004 - March 2005
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Americas Organics Rotation 1, March 18, 2020 - March 21, 2022
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/31.
"The Best of the Best: Qumpi (Highest-Status Textiles) in Ancient Andean Thought and Practice," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/bestofthebest.

ProvenanceEx coll. Robert and Ann Walzer, United States, purchased from Nancy Prince, Maine, ca. 1960s - early 1970s.

Status

Not on view

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