Female Fiber Sculpture | Yale University Art Gallery

1100–1470

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Cotton, camelid wool, reed, and pigment
Dimensions: 10 1/2 in. (26.67 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Erik Jacobsen
Accession Number: 2017.40.2
Geography: Central Andes, Peru
Culture: Central Andes, Central Coast, Chancay Culture
Period: Late Intermediate Period
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Michael Higgins, to 1988; Erik Jacobsen Collection, to 2017; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (December 1, 2017), 13

Vanessa Drake Moraga, Shamans, Supernaturals and Animal Spirits: Mythic Figures from the Ancient Andes, 2 vols. (Larkspur, Calif.: OLOLO Press, 2016), ill

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Object/Work type

funerary art, human figures (visual works), mythology, sculptures

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