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© Bruce M. White, 2013.
Textile with Anthropomorphic Figure and Pelicans
© Bruce M. White, 2013.
© Bruce M. White, 2013.
© Bruce M. White, 2013.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Textile with Anthropomorphic Figure and Pelicans

Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureChimu
PeriodLate Intermediate
Dateca. 1100-1450 CE
MediumCotton, camelid fiber
Credit LineGift in memory of John C. and Nora Wise
Dimensions32 x 45 in. (81.3 x 114.3 cm)
Object number2002.008.001
Exhibition History'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
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.
Patricia Ewer, "Case Study 1E: Entrepreneurship and Conservation," in Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice, ed. Frances Lennard and Patricia Ewer (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010), 37-43.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/47.
"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
Collections
  • Art of the Americas