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Art of the Ancient Americas
Public domain
Artist: Unknown

Textile fragment

1000–1476

Cotton, woven and dyed

19 × 31.7 cm (7 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Katharine Ordway Collection
1980.12.1
Geography: 
Central Andes, Peru
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Central Andes, Chimú
Period: 
Late Intermediate Period
Classification: 
Textiles
Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 1980,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 2 (Winter 1982): 75.

Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 124, no. 133.

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