Nasca
Border fragment
Nasca, 2000-600
Scroll
Nasca
Border fragment
Nasca, 2000-600
Physical Qualities
Camelid fiber, cotton, 4 13/16 × 2 3/16 in. (12.3 × 5.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Frank J. and Elizabeth L. Goodnow Collection
Object Number
1953.209.11
Alternate rows of stylized llamas and geometric design motifs. Horizontal border with end of run and one selvage at left. Coarse kelim weave. Colors: red ground, brown, yellow, white, blue, and green. Four staggered rows of two motives1 and 3 a fret pattern; 2 and 4 animals walking to left. One horn or ear, one foreleg, tail attached to vertical line - the haunch with the backlegs. (Schmidt-Pizarro notes that this piece is from the border of a man's funeral robe.)
Weibel, Adele Coulin
1954. Early Peruvian Textiles. BMA News 17(3):6-11.
