Corner from a Mantle | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 800–1000

Not on view

Medium: Camelid wool, cotton, supplementary weft, selvedged on one side with tubular finish.
Dimensions: 36.83 × 50.8 cm (14 1/2 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Erik Jacobsen
Accession Number: 2019.1.25
Geography: Andes Mountains
Culture: Andes, Wari-related style, (Huarmey Valley?, Chimú-Capac?)
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Erik Jacobsen Collection, to 2019; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

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

Ferdinand Anton, Altindianische Textilkunst aus Peru (Leipzig, Germany: Seeman Verlag, 1984), fig. 102.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, histories (visual works), human figures (visual works), legends (literary genre), textiles

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