Tapestry Panel
Arts of the Americas
MEDIUM
Cotton, camelid fiber
DATES
600–1000
PERIOD
Middle Horizon Period
DIMENSIONS
39 1/4 x 41 3/8 in. (99.7 x 105.1 cm)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
53.147
CREDIT LINE
Frank L. Babbott Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A single tapestry panel with an alternating pattern of human heads wearing tasseled, four-cornered hats, and fanged supernatural beings with a protruding tongues. A hole in the center of this textile was cut at a later date, indicating that it was probably worn as a tunic.
Condition: Fair overall. Side seams have been cut and the textile is open and flat. The overall woven structure remains intact, but there are some small losses in the dark areas.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Wari. Tapestry Panel, 600–1000. Cotton, camelid fiber, 39 1/4 x 41 3/8 in. (99.7 x 105.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frank L. Babbott Fund, 53.147. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 53.147_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 53.147_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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How are the colors so bright and well preserved in this 600-1000 CE textile?
The textiles were likely discovered in burials on the South coast of Peru in one of driest regions of the world. This climate preserved the textiles and there pigments. For this Wari textile we do not know exactly where it was discovered.
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