Cloth with Procession of Figures
170 BC-AD 70 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Cloth with Procession of Figures, 170 BC-AD 70 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people, 100 BC-AD 700, Early Intermediate Period, 1-650. Cotton and pigment (field); camelid fiber (borders and fringe); overall: 69.8 x 280.7 cm (27 1/2 x 110 1/2 in.); mounted: 78.7 x 290.2 cm (31 x 114 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.530 Characteristics of the pampas cat and the emperor tamarin monkey are visible in the marching figures.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- cotton and pigment (field); camelid fiber (borders and fringe)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 69.8 x 280.7 cm (27 1/2 x 110 1/2 in.); Mounted: 78.7 x 290.2 cm (31 x 114 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1940.530
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Americas, Andean Gallery 107 Rotation, Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation, Ancient Andean Textiles (Ancient Andean textile rotation), <em>Ancient Arts of the Andes</em>, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26- March 26, 1954).<br><em>Treasures of Peruvian Gold</em>, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (February 23- March 3, 1966).<br>Gallery 107 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2001-November 18, 2002).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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