Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Fragment (Peru), 1450–1535

  Band of very fine brown wool tapestry with broad band below of weft-surfaced rectangles in red, brown, yellow, with overlaying diamond framework (stylized snakes) in these colors on contrasting fields.…

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  Textile (Peru), before 600 AD

  Part of mile-long piece (end not reached) brought back by Columbia University espedition; found in Cahuachi hacienda, about 15 miles from town of Nazca which is about 80 miles from…

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  Band (Peru), 300–100 BC

  Plaited band in dark red with dark green center on a black ground.

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  Textile (Peru), 1000–1400

  Border of stylized interlocking birds and frets, with top band of monkeys alternating with stepped diagonals, lower band of triangles and interlocking birds; darned or woven in heavy pale tan…

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  Fragment (Peru), 1200–1400

  Fragment of loosely woven white cotton embroidered with red and black birds.

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  Knotted Net (Peru), 1000–1400

  Pouch with all-over chevron pattern, three triangles at each side, in knotted netting (close-set knots form pattern). Twisted cord gathers it around edge. undyed. Dark tan.

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  Fragment (Peru), 1000–1400

  Self-contain square fragment with edges continuous with field. Two parallel warps cross next pair to form an allover trellis loosely spanned by basic wefts.

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  Fragment (Peru), 1000–1400

  Square panel made from two pieces stitched together. Panel is divided into four squares with a single repeat of a large stylized bird with elaborate topknot and small geometrical filling…

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  Fragment (Peru), 1000–1400

  Fine, loosely woven cotton cloth with slightly overtwised yarns, with a small scale all-over design of diagonals of interlocking birds alternating with diagonals of interlocking fishes, each diagonal set off…

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  Basket And Contents (Peru), 11th–14th century

  Outer basket of plaited rushes partly covered with coarse undyed cotton cloth and a plaited multicolored wool cord. Inner basket of plaited rushes with cloth covering made with double warps…