Poncho Displaying Contorted Figures

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

c. 200-150 BCE

Paracas
South coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Paracas
Title: Poncho Displaying Contorted Figures
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.: c. 200 BCE–150 BCE
Medium: Wool (camelid), plain weave; embroidered in stem stitches; edged with cross-knit loop stitches; loop and plied fringes
Credit Line: Edward E. Ayer, Harriott A. Fox, and Samuel P. Avery Endowments
Reference Number: 1958.292
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Bessie Bennett, “Exhibition of Pre-Incan Fabrics and Ornaments,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 46, 2 (Feb. 1932): 18, fig. 1.
Junius Bird and Louise C. Bellinger, Paracas Fabrics and Nazca Needlwork, 3rd century BC-3rd Century AD (Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1954)a, 30.
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 12-13, pl. 1.
Virginia Churchill Bath, Embroidery Masterworks: Classic Patterns and Techniques for Contemporary Application from the Textile Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972), 1-4, pl. 1 (ill.).
Anne Paul, “The multiple layers of meaning in a Paracas Necropolis Textile,” in Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints: Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, ed. Ann Lane Hedlund (Textile Society of America, 2001), 210-20.
Anne Paul, “Las múltiples capas de significación de un tejido Paracas Necrópolis,” in Actas: II Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Textiles Precolombinos, ed. Victòria Solanilla Demestre (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002), 178-89.
Ann Pollard Rowe, “A Paracas Mantle,” Hali 147 (July-Aug. 2006), color pl. 3.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2016), 284, cat 226.

Art Institute of Chicago, Peruvian Garment Embroideries, Jan. 20-Apr. 1, 1932, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25-Mar. 2, 1969.
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, Aug. 24-Dec. 8, 2004.
Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

Unknown owner, by 1932 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, Bennett 1932, fig. 1]. Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck, Heeramaneck Gallery, New York, by 1953 [Rowe 2006, 147; incoming receipt RX2532, May 20, 1958; copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

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