Fish-Shaped Applique
1400–1532
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fish-Shaped Applique, 1400–1532. Central Andes, Central Coast, Ychsma (Pachacamac) people. Cotton and camelid fiber, tapestry weave with areas of eccentric weft floats; overall: 26 x 56.5 cm (10 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.); mounted: 32.4 x 62.9 cm (12 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.392 This fish-shaped textile, a complete weaving with 33 finished edges, was stitched with others like it to a mantle, a shawl-like garment that was a staple of ancient Andean wardrobe. The partial “x-ray view,” which emphasizes the bony white teeth and spine, is unique to the style of the Ychsma (yeach-mah), who lived on Peru’s central coast. Marine imagery may relate to both subsistence and religious concerns—at least some coastal people of the period conceived of the sea as a deity.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- cotton and camelid fiber, tapestry weave with areas of eccentric weft floats
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26 x 56.5 cm (10 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.); Mounted: 32.4 x 62.9 cm (12 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1933.392
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Americas, Fiberworks: Tradition and Technique, Andean Gallery 107 Rotation, Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation, <em>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving.</em> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951- January 2, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).<br><em>Treasures of Peruvian Gold.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).<br>Gallery 107 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 29, 2004-April 12, 2005).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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