Coca or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña)

Textiles

1875/1925

Quechua or Aymara
Lake Titicaca region, Peru or Bolivia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Quechua
Title: Coca or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña)
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 1875–1925
Medium: Wool, stripes of plain weave, float weave derived from weft chevron twill weave, and two- and three-color complementary warp weaves
Dimensions: 108.9 × 74.6 cm (42 7/8 × 29 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Carter H. Harrison
Reference Number: 1944.717

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.

Carter H. Harrison IV (1860-1953), Chicago, by 1944 [incoming Receipt No. 8213]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.

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