ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Fragment of a Key Tunic

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureInka

PeriodLate Intermediate - Late Horizon

Dateca. 1438-1532 CE

MediumCotton, camelid fiber, natural dyes

Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge

Dimensions6 1/4 x 7 in. (15.9 x 17.8 cm)

Object number2002.001.128

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, Textile Rotation, September 13, 2002 - March 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/28.
"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. Curtice M. Clay Aldridge (1910-2003), Columbus, Georgia.

Status

Not on view

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