ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tunic or Mantle Fragment with Tie-Dyed Stepped Triangles

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureWari (Huari)

PeriodMiddle Horizon

Dateca. 600-1000 CE

MediumCotton, camelid fibers, natural dyes

Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge

Dimensions19 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (50.2 x 31.1 cm)

Object number2002.001.148

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/37.
"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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