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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Comb with Birds
© 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

Comb with Birds

Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureChancay
PeriodLate Intermediate
Dateca. 1000-1470 CE
MediumCamelid fiber, wood
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions3 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (9.5 x 8.9 cm)
Object number1992.015.289
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
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), 260, figure 574.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/30.
ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Ken Klassen, Burnaby, Canada, 1982.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas