Art of the Ancient Americas
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Three Dimensional Elements for an Unfinished Border

A.D. 100–300

Camelid wool; cross-knit looping

Various dimensions: 2.54 × 7.62 cm (1 × 3 in.)
Gift of Erik Jacobsen
2019.1.77
Geography: 
Andes Mountains
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Andes, Early Nasca culture
Classification: 
Textiles
Provenance: 

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

Bibliography: 

Alan R. Sawyer, Early Nasca Needlework (London: Lawrence King, 1997), fig. 121–25.

Anne Paul, ed., Paracas Art and Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal Peru (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991), fig. 9.14.

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.