Fragment

Textiles

A.D. 1476/1532

Chuquibamba
Peru, Probably south coast

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Chuquibamba
Title: Fragment
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 1476–1532
Medium: Wool (camelid), interlocking tapestry weave with inserts of complementary weft weave
Dimensions: 62.2 × 99.5 cm (24 1/2 × 39 1/8 in.); Repeat: 8.8 × 6 cm (3 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1711
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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), 376-7, cat 353.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, April 14- June 29, 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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