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1476/1532

Chuquibamba
Possibly Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

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Artist: Chuquibamba
Title: Poncho
Origin: Peru
Date: 1476–1532
Medium: Camelid wool, single interlocking tapestry weave and five-color complementary weft weave with center band of complementary weft weave
Dimensions: 199.4 x 257.5 cm (78 1/2 x 101 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
Reference Number: 1999.290

Richard Townsend, Indian Art of the Americas at The Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2016), pp. 376, cat 352.
Richard F. Townsend, "Burial Mantle,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (1999), pp. 10-11.
Richard F. Townsend and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “The Art Institute of Chicago New Galleries,” in Tribal Arts XVI-1/62 (Winter 2011), p. 65, figure 12 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, gallery 136, Department of African and Amerindian Art, April 26-September 27, 2011
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 136, Department of African and Amerindian Art, May 10-September 13, 2016

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