Red Tasseled Tunic Fragments

Place CreatedPacatnamu, Peru, South America

CultureLambayeque (Sican) or Chimu

PeriodMiddle Horizon - Late Intermediate

Date900-1300 CE

MediumCotton, camelid fibers

Credit LineGift of Cindy Karp

Dimensions24 1/2 x 24 in. (62.2 x 61 cm)

Object number2004.064.001A/C

Exhibition HistoryThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
Published ReferencesThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/13.
"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.
"Dialogues in Thread: the Quechua Concepts of Ayni, Ukhu, Tinku, Q'iwa, and Ushay," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/dialoguesinthread.

ProvenanceEx coll. Cindy Karp, United States, acquired in Peru, 1975.

Status

Not on view

Collections

Art of the Americas

Technical NotesTransmitted light microscopy of the red fibers reveals medullated space within the cortex and ridges along the shaft, as seen in camelid fibers.