Cloth

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/891

Painted gauze cloth with one selvage, five horizontal zigzag double lines with parrots and double-headed birds, and circles with dots alternating between them. Brown on cream ground. Incomplete.


  • Type of Item cloth
  • Culture Chancay
  • Material cotton fibre, paint
  • Measurements height 33.1 cm, width 60.1 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 2990/0891