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Paracas Pre-Columbian, Paracas Peninsula Peru

Mantle, 299-200 BCE

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Paracas

Title

Mantle

Year

299-200 BCE

Medium

Alpaca wool and cotton plain weave with wool embroidery knit stem stitch

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • camelid fiber,
  • cotton

Techniques

  • plain weave,
  • embroidery,
  • embroidering,
  • embroidered

Dimensions

Length: 127 cm (50 inches)

Place

Paracas Peninsula; Peru

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

40.190

Projects & Publications

Publications

A World of Costume and Textiles

A Handbook of the Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Mantle with the accession number of 40.190. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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