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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Tapestry Fragment with Monkeys
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tapestry Fragment with Monkeys

Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureChancay
PeriodLate Intermediate
Date1000-1470 CE
MediumCotton, camelid fiber
Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions14 x 6 3/8 in. (35.6 x 16.2 cm)
Object number1991.002.162
Exhibition HistoryAndean Fiber Arts from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, May 11 - August 9, 1993
Andean Fiber Arts from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 13 - October 8, 1996
MCCM 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
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 262, figure 576.
"Dialogues in Thread: the Quechua Concepts of Ayni, Ukhu, Tinku, Q'iwa, and Ushay," figures 7a/b, Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/dialoguesinthread and http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/35.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Alan Rosen, Orlando, Florida, February 1985.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas