Tunic Fragment | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 650–900

Not on view

The Huari, central highlanders, reigned over the Andes and the desert coasts from A.D. 700–1000. During this era, regional styles were submerged while Huari iconography surfaced on artworks from north to south. The Huari "staff figure" occurs everywhere, running across stone monuments, textiles, and ceramics. On this textile, he throws his head back and gazes upward with an octagonal eye.

Medium: Wool over cotton tapestry
Dimensions: 6 1/8 × 23 3/4 in. (15.6 × 60.3 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1937.4583
Geography: Central Andes, Peru
Culture: Central Andes, Wari
Period: Middle Horizon
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Bought in N.Y. by Mrs. Moore.

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 322–3, ill

Loretta N Staples, A Sense of Pattern: Textile Masterworks from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 53, no. 49, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

clothing, fragments, human figures (visual works), textiles, tunics

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