About This Artwork

Chancay
Central coast, Peru

Fragment, A.D. 1000/1476

Cotton and wool (camelid), bands of plain weave, slit tapestry weave with wrapping outlining wefts, and three-color complementary weft weave; edged with plain weave extended weft loop fringe
41 x 40.3 cm (16 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1955.1763