Textile / wool

Description

Fragment of complementary warp-faced textile in coloured camelid fibres with a mostly symmetrical pattern of stylised human and animal figures and scroll devices, including a large male figure and a deer, possibly cut from a belt-bag: South America, Chile, Arica Province, c.1000 - 1470AD, possibly Chuquibamba

Museum reference

A.1950.238

Collection

Americas

Object name

Textile / wool

Production information

Arica province, Chile, South America

Date

c. 1000

Style / Culture

Arica

Materials

Wool, Cotton

Physical description

Coloured wools and white cotton thread

Associations

Ohly, Ernest (Ernst) Jacob Felix, 1920 - 2008
Ohly, William Ferdinand Charles, 1883 - 1955