ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tapestry Tunic Fragment with Faces

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureWari (Huari)

PeriodEarly Intermediate - Middle Horizon

Dateca. 500-800 CE

MediumCamelid fiber, cotton

Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge

Dimensions17 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (43.5 x 14 cm)

Object number2002.001.127

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.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/44.
"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

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