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Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment

Culture: Paracas
Medium: Cotton, camelid fiber
Place Found: South Coast, Peru
Dates: 0-100 C.E.
Period: Early Intermediate Period, Phase 1A
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (40 x 4 cm)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 34.562.1
Credit Line: George C. Brackett Fund
Image: Overall, 34.562.1_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Size: undetermined or adult; probable wearer: undetermined or male. Vertical cotton warp, cotton weft. Camelid fiber embroidery in pink, blue, yellow, green, white. Plain weave. The iconography represented is of birds with backward turned heads. Similar fragments can be found in the collections of the Textile Museum (91.127) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (33.149.102).

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