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Fragment: Textile

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/905 a-c

Three pieces of embroidered textile with cactus flowers on blue ground. Flowers have rectangular body, triangular ending on one side and long line on the other. Part a is a large band with three types of flowers: yellow-brown, blue and light blue squares on body, yellow-brown and green squares and blue and yellow-brown squares in cream weft. Other band fragments are small and have the same flower design; one with a red-brown ground (b) and the other (c) with yellow-brown and green squares on weft.

  • Type of Item textile
  • Culture Paracas
  • Material cotton fibre, camelid wool fibre, dye
  • Measurements height 25.5 cm, width 2.8 cm (part a) height 6.1 cm, width 3.0 cm (part b) height 6.2 cm, width 2.7 cm (part c)
  • Previous Owner Alan R. Sawyer, Erika H. Sawyer
  • Received from Erika H. Sawyer
  • Made in Cordero Alto
  • Creation Date between 901 BCE and 201 BCE
  • Collection Date between 1950 and 1975
  • Ownership Date before January 15, 2013
  • Acquisition Date on January 15, 2013
  • Item Classes textiles
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 2990/0905 a-c

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