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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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