ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Female Effigy Fiber Sculpture

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureChancay

PeriodLate Intermediate

Dateca.1000-1470 CE

MediumReed, cotton, camelid fiber, unidentifed hair

Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge

Dimensions12 1/16 x 5 5/8 in. (30.6 x 14.3 cm)

Object number2002.001.147

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation, September 2003 - March 2004
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/12.
"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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