Tunic
400–200 BC
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Tunic, 400–200 BC. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site?, Paracas people. Looped camelid fiber; average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.514 The red dyes in this tunic likely come from madder root.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- looped camelid fiber
- Dimensions
- Average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1940.514
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Americas, Fiberworks: Tradition and Technique, Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation, <em>Art of the Americas.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 19-April 11,1943).<br><br><em>Pre-Columbian Art: The Native Art of America Before the Conquest</em>, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, (January 10-February 1,1953).<br><br><em>Ancient Arts of the Andes.</em> Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26-March 26, 1954).<br><br><em>Latin America, Then and Now</em>. The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO (September 16-October 4,1959).<br><br><em>Town and Country (Window Display)</em>. The Halle Bros. Co. Cleveland, OH (January 29-February 8,1960).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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