Panel

Textiles

1000/1476

Lambayeque
North coast, Peru

Lambayeque textiles typically consist of multiple weavings joined together to create larger panels and garments. This panel feature repeating rows of designs, with motifs including a human figure and a large white bird, both wearing crescent headdresses. With this pairing of human and animal figures, the textile may allude to a legend of an ancestral lord who escaped death by sprouting wings and flying away.

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Department: Textiles

Culture: Lambayeque
Title: Panel
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1000–1476
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave
Dimensions: 76 × 49.2 cm (30 × 19 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1706a
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Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichete des Altan Peru (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. X.
Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth, 1924), 57, pl. X.
Alfredo Taullard, Tejidos y ponchos indigenas de Sudamerica (G. Kraft, 1949), fig. 121.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Treasures of Ancient Peruvian Art,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly XLVI, no. 2 (April 1952), p. 29 (ill).
Allen Wardwell, Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 29.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, To Weave for the Sun: Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, 1992), p. 126.

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Oct. 10, 1997-Jan. 29, 1998
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Jan. 25-May 9, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Aug. 25-Dec. 5, 2003
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 136, Department of African and Amerindian, Oct. 31, 2013-Feb. 20, 2014.
Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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