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Coca Bag (Chuspa)

A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave, and plain weave with paired warps and supplementary patterning warps; applied tubular crossed-warp edging in complex bird's eye; attached cotton and wool (camelid), crossed-warp strap.

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  • A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave, and plain weave with paired warps and supplementary patterning warps; applied tubular crossed-warp edging in complex bird's eye; attached cotton and wool (camelid), crossed-warp strap.

Date:

Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Artist:

Quechua or Aymara
Possibly Ayaviri, Puno, Peru

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Quechua

Title

Coca Bag (Chuspa)

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

Cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave, and plain weave with paired warps and supplementary patterning warps; applied tubular crossed-warp edging in complex bird's eye; attached cotton and wool (camelid), crossed-warp strap

Dimensions

14 × 14.9 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment

Reference Number

1955.1841

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