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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
Openwork Headcloth Fragment
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Openwork Headcloth Fragment

Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureChancay
PeriodLate Intermediate
Dateca. 1000-1470 CE
MediumCotton, indigo dye
Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge
Dimensions7 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (19.1 x 33.7 cm)
Object number2002.001.052
Label Text

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation, March 2004 - September 2004
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Americas Organics Rotation 1, March 18, 2020 - March 18, 2022
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/54.
"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, gift from Leo Drimmer, 1969.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas