Belt (Chumpi or Wak’a)

Textiles

Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Quechua or Aymara
Possibly Lake Titicaca region, Peru or Bolivia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Quechua
Title: Belt (Chumpi or Wak’a)
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. 1875–1910
Medium: Wool and cotton, two-color complementary warp weave based on a diamond twill weave; braided warp fringe
Dimensions: 114.9 × 12.4 cm (45 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1621

Art Institute of Chicago, Folk Art Textiles from the Permanent Collection, November 8, 1980-March 1, 1981.
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.

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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