Description:

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1400 CE. A lovely textile fragment comprised of tightly-woven camelid (llama or alpaca wool) fibers in hues of teal, fuchsia, gold, crimson, and espresso. A quartet of delineated, diagonally-oriented stripes define the main body and are filled with dense avian motifs of a characteristically abstract presentation. A thin strip of gold, brown, and red lines the bottom of the main body and suspends a fringed lower border from its lower-most lip. Mounted in a frame atop a fabric-lined mat. Size (textile): 10" W x 11.75" H (25.4 cm x 29.8 cm); size (frame): 16.625" W x 18.125" H (42.2 cm x 46 cm).

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Drimmer collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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  • Condition: This is a fragment of a larger textile item. Light fraying to some interior and peripheral threads, with losses to lower left side, and light fading and staining to pigmentation. Avian imagery is still visible and clearly defined.

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