Art of the Ancient Americas
Public domain
Artist: Unknown

Textile fragment

600–200 B.C.

Cotton and llama (or alpaca) wool. Section with legs and skirt are separating, very fragile.

11.4 x 10 cm (4 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
Katharine Ordway Collection
1980.12.72
Culture: 
Central Andes, Paracas
Period: 
Early Horizon
Classification: 
Textiles
Status: 
Not on view
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), 123, no. 126.

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