Panel Fragment

Textiles

200/500

Nazca
South coast, Peru

This fragment, constructed with single interlocking warps and wefts, is composed of a pattern of over 20 step-frets rendered in 14 different colors. Nazca weavers are known for the wide range of colors employed in the production of their textiles. They achieved the various colors through dyeing and naturally colored yarns and by plying two different yarns together in order to produce additional colors. The irregularity of the pattern of the step frets displayed on this fragment may not reflect the original configuration of the design, as it may have been altered at a later date.

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Department: Textiles

Culture: Nasca
Title: Panel Fragment
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 200 CE–500 CE
Medium: Wool (camelid) and cotton, plain weave of discontinuous single interlocking warps and wefts
Dimensions: 51.8 × 32.7 cm (20 3/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp
Reference Number: 1956.76
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Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 13 and 15, pl. 3.
Rehl, Jane W. “Weaving Metaphors, Weaving Cosmos: Structure, Creativity and Meaning in Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru, 300 B.C.E.-1540 C.E.” (Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 2003), pp. 279-80 and p. 539, cat. 19, fig. 19.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Sept. 11- Dec. 16, 1985.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, July 13, 1990- Jan. 17, 1991.
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 Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Jan. 25-. May 9, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Oct. 10, 1997- Jan. 29, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Feb. 7-July 5, 2001.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, May 21-Sept. 23, 2014.
Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru, by 1956 [sent care of Rudolfo Byrne, Brooklyn, NY; incoming Receipt RX1913, May 21, 1956; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

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