Description:

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 CE. This is a rectangular woven cotton textile panel fragment that is decorated with three registers of star patterns and interlocking snake-like animal forms. Inca textiles symbolized wealth and status, and fine cloth could be used to pay taxes or as another form of currency. When the Spanish came, the Inca first gave them gifts of textiles; later, many textiles were burned by the Inca to prevent them from falling into Spanish hands. As a result, many of the surviving textile fragments that we have came from highlands and mountain burial sites. Size: 19-1/2"W x 23-1/2"H. Provenance: Ex-Robert Pearson, ex-private West Virginia collection, acquired late 1960s to early 1970s. To present owner by descent. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. #110176

  • Condition: General wear and tattered edges; the textile has been sewn onto a black cloth.

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