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Art of the Ancient Americas
Artist: Unknown
Tab Border from a Mantle or Ritual Cloth
100 B.C.–A.D.200
Camelid wool, cotton; plain weave, stem-stitch embroidery (color-block style), edged with crossed-loop stitch.
8.26 × 43.18 cm (3 1/4 × 17 in.)
Gift of Erik Jacobsen
2019.1.71
Geography:
Made in Andes
Culture:
Andes, Late Paracas/Early Nasca culture
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Erik Jacobsen Collection, to 2019; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Dr. Christopher B. Donnan, Donna McClelland, and Elizabeth P. Benson, Moche Fineline Painting: Its Evolution and its Artists (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1999), 178-9.
Deborah Brinckerhoff, Weaving for the Gods: Textiles of the Ancient Andes (Greenwich, Conn.: Bruce Museum, 1999), 55–92.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.