About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Culture
- Lambayeque
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Title
- Panel
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Place
- Peru (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1000–1476
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Medium
- Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave
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Dimensions
- 77.5 × 23.5 cm (30 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1955.1706c
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/181388/manifest.json