Textile Fragment Mounted on Modern Fabric Item Number: 34.560.1 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Size: undetermined or adult; probable wearer: undetermined or male. Plain weave with a vertical camelid fiber warp and camelid fiber weft. Camelid fiber embroidery. The iconography represents a bird with an animal-like head. Also see 86.224.96 in the Brooklyn Museum collection; these fragments are obviously from the same original even though acquired at different times (Ann Rowe).
Credit Line
George C. Brackett Fund
What
- Name
- Textile Fragment Mounted on Modern Fabric
- Identification Number
- 34.560.1
- Type of Item
- textile fragment, mounted and fabric
- Material
- camelid fibre
- Overall
- length 3.875 in, width 4.8125 in
Who
- Culture
- Paracas Necropolis
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
Other
- Classification
- Textile