Four fragments of fabric

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Description

band of fabric, l: 114 cm, b: 9 cm, cotton/wool, zoomorphic double figure, elaborate rest.; border with fringes, alpaca wool/cotton, partly in slit-tapestry, jaguar and bird motif, elaborately rest., gauze fixed underneath the missing parts; additional: fabric fragment with bird head motif, m: 21 cm x 14 cm and fragment with geometrical motifs, m: 28 cm x 15 cm, both of them with stitched contours; all four fragments brashly, because of old age, fixed on black cardboard;
all textiles of pre-columbian times were found on archeological excavations, mostly along the Peruvian coast.

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Comparing literature

Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 127 f.

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