ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Polychrome Khipu (Knot Writing Device)

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureInka

PeriodLate Intermediate - Late Horizon

Dateca. 1438-1532 CE

MediumCotton, indigo dye

Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge

DimensionsMaximum: 26 1/2 × 23 in. (67.3 × 58.4 cm) Frame: 31 1/2 × 29 in. (80 × 73.7 cm)

Object number2002.001.130

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, Textile Rotation, September 13, 2002 - March 2003
Desire and Consumption: The New World in the Age of Shakespeare, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 9, 2017
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.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 82.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/49.
"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.

Status

Not on view

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