Mantle
c. 600–400 B.C.
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Mantle, c. 600–400 B.C.. Peru, South Coast, Paracas, c. 600-400 BC. Embroidery on wool ground; average: 137.2 x 195.6 cm (54 x 77 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.515 Extremely dry conditions on Peru's desert coast allow for the extraordinary preservation of textiles.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- embroidery on wool ground
- Medium
- embroidery, wool, ground
- Dimensions
- Average: 137.2 x 195.6 cm (54 x 77 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1940.515
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Pre-Columbian Peruvian Exhibition. Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, WI (June-July 1953).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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