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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Tapestry Tunic Fragment with Staff Bearer
© 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 Tunic Fragment with Staff Bearer

Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureTiwanaku
PeriodEarly Intermediate - Middle Horizon
Dateca. 500-800 CE
MediumCamelid fiber, cotton
Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge
Dimensions5 1/2 x 4 in. (14 x 10.2 cm)
Object number2002.001.002
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation, March 2003 - September 2003
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, September - November 2002.
Jane W. Rehl, Weaving Metaphors, Weaving Cosmos: Reflections of a Shamanic Worldview in Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru, 300 BCE - 1540 CE (Saarbrucken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010), 234.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/27.
"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. Curtice M. Clay Aldridge (1910-2003), Columbus, Georgia.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas