Textile Fragment Mounted on Modern Fabric

Artist:Paracas Necropolis

Medium: Camelid fiber

Geograhical Locations:

• South Coast, Peru

Dates:0–100 C.E.

Dimensions: 3 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (9.5 × 11.4 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of the Americas

Accession Number: 34.560.1

Image: 34.560.1_SL1.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Embroidered bird figure in black, dark blue, green, yellow, red, beige, and light blue from a Paracas textile. Size: undetermined or adult; probable wearer: undetermined or male. Plain weave with a vertical camelid fiber warp and camelid fiber weft. Camelid fiber embroidery. The iconography represents a bird with an animal-like head. Also see 86.224.96 in the Brooklyn Museum collection; these fragments are obviously from the same original even though acquired at different times (Ann Rowe).

Brooklyn Museum