Description:

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Paracas culture, ca. 800 to 100 BCE. An absolutely gorgeous strip of textile showing anthropomorphized insect figures of a similar shape in a long thin line; the colors are wonderful, with blue, yellow, orange, green, pink, red, and brown all represented. The piece comes mounted and framed. Size: 1.1" W x 25.75" H (2.8 cm x 65.4 cm); size of frame: 6.5" W x 36" H (16.5 cm x 91.4 cm)

The people of the early cultures in the Andes buried their dead in bundles with woven textiles, sometimes wearing clothing like this loincloth. These often have repetitive, almost fractal patterns, often placed inside of frames, with color sequences designed to move the eye across the textile rather than focus on a single point. The dry, cold climate of the Andes preserved these textiles. Two-dimensional representations of insects are common in Andean art, but their meaning has not been well studied.

Provenance: Ex-Private New York Collection

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  • Condition: A few loose threads on the edges and both ends are slightly ragged; bright colors.

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