Coca Bag (Chuspa)

Textiles

1950/1980

Quechua
Chuquisaca,Yamparáez, Tarabuco, and Candelaria, Bolivia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Quechua
Title: Coca Bag (Chuspa)
Place: Bolivia (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 1950–1980
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of plain weave and plain weave derivatives with complementary patterning warp; central stripe with extended warp creating a woven looped flap; applied tubular crossed-warp weave edging; wool-wrapped overcast stitch bottom edging and pom-pom tassles; attached strap of cotton and wool (camelid) plain weave with complementary patterning warp
Dimensions: 18.7 × 20 cm (7 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society
Reference Number: 1981.44

Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1978, July 10-Oct. 10, 1982.
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, Twenty Years of Textile Society Collecting, Dec. 20, 1997-Mar. 22, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

Laurie Adelson, Flossmoor, IL; sold by her to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

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