Cloth
MOA: University of British Columbia
2990/890
Embroidered cloth with sixteen stylized condors(?), band borders of thirteen invert-repeat bird motifs above and below, and three selvages. Red, yellow-cream, blue and light brown dyed alpaca on brown cotton plain weave ground. Condors have triangular tails, diamond-shaped eyes, and three crests. (Incomplete object.)
- Type of Item cloth
- Culture Chancay
- Material dye, cotton fibre, alpaca wool fibre
- Measurements height 52.0 cm, width 37.6 cm (overall)
- Previous Owner Alan R. Sawyer, Erika H. Sawyer
- Received from Erika H. Sawyer
- Made in Lima
- Creation Date between 1000 and 1476
- 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 2990/0890