Paracas. <em>Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment</em>, 0–100 C.E. Cotton, camelid fiber, 15 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (40 x 4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, George C. Brackett Fund, 34.562.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 34.562.1_SL1.jpg)

Paracas. Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment, 0–100 C.E. Cotton, camelid fiber, 15 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (40 x 4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, George C. Brackett Fund, 34.562.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 34.562.1_SL1.jpg)

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Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Paracas

MEDIUM Cotton, camelid fiber

Place Found: South Coast, Peru

DATES 0–100 C.E.

PERIOD Early Intermediate Period, Phase 1A

DIMENSIONS 15 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (40 x 4 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas

ACCESSION NUMBER 34.562.1

CREDIT LINE George C. Brackett Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Size: undetermined or adult; probable wearer: undetermined or male. Vertical cotton warp, cotton weft. Camelid fiber embroidery in pink, blue, yellow, green, white. Plain weave. The iconography represented is of birds with backward turned heads. Similar fragments can be found in the collections of the Textile Museum (91.127) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (33.149.102).

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Paracas. Textile Fragment, unascertainable, Border or Poncho, Border, Fragment, 0–100 C.E. Cotton, camelid fiber, 15 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (40 x 4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, George C. Brackett Fund, 34.562.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 34.562.1_SL1.jpg)

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