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

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

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.

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