Fragment

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

A.D. 500/1000

Moche-Huari
Possibly Huarmey Valley, north-central coast, Peru

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Department: Textiles

Culture: Moche
Title: Fragment
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date: Made 800 CE–1000
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave with discontinuous wefts and single dovetailed tapestry weave; edged with cross-knit loop stitches
Dimensions: 52.1 × 27.6 cm (20 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1653
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Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichete des Altan Peru (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. 119.
Walter Lehmann, The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth, 1924), 64, fig. 119.
Allen Wardwell, Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 26.
Else Regensteiner, Geometric Design in Weaving (Schiffer Publishing, 1986), 43, fig. 3-9.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at The Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2016), 324, cat. 290.

Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, The Art of Ancient Peru, December 20, 1961-January 28, 1962
The School of the Art Institute Museum Seminary Exhibition, God, Man and Beast: Metamorphosis in Native American Art, May 9- June 6, 1979
The Art Institute of Chicago, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, December 18, 1985- March 17, 1986
The Art Institute of Chicago, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, January 17 - June 17, 1991
Art Institute of Chicago, Mexican, Central and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, October 28, 1992-January 17, 1993
The Art Institute of Chicago, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, October 27, 1994- March 8, 1995
The Art Institute of Chicago, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, January 29- March 23, 1998
The Art Institute of Chicago, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, December 9, 2004- April 14, 2005

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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