COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1953.475
AMICA Library Year:
2002
Object Type:
Textiles
Creator Nationality:
North American; Central American; Mesoamerican
Creator Name-CRT:
Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700)
Title:
Textile Band
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Detail
Creation Date:
100 BC-700
Creation Start Date:
-100
Creation End Date:
700
Materials and Techniques:
interlocking warp and weft, single interlock: wool
Classification Term:
Textiles
Dimensions:
Overall: 181cm x 21.6cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1953.475
Credit Line:
Gift of John Wise
Context:
This band's intense color and spider-web sheerness are remarkable. Both were achieved with a complex weaving technique developed nowhere else in the world. Each color area is essentially a small, independent textile linked to surrounding color areas through weaving rather than sewing, a puzzling feat that we do not yet completely understand. The image repeated in each of the band's rectangles is equally baffling-two little feet descend from an odd, head-like form.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.AM20020498.tif
Link To Source
Textile Band
