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Textile Fragment with Frontal Deity Heads, Felines, and Interlace Pattern

700–400 BCE

Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Yauca Valley

(?)
Medium
camelid fiber; double-cloth with structural embroidery
Measurements
Overall: 83.2 x 21.6 cm (32 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2005.14
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Description

This textile fragment and (2005.13), belong to a group that represents Andean weavers’ earliest known achievements in double cloth, a technique that allows the creation of identical designs on both faces of the cloth but in reversed colors. They also record the devotion to abstraction typical of the Paracas style. One features three repeats of a highly geometrical standing deity with a fanged mouth. The other includes several stylized deity heads and a blocky, frontally posed feline. The type of garment that these fragments come from remains
unknown.
A vertically long camelid fiber textile in muted reddish-brown and dark blue consists of two frayed fragments. The upper portion is heavily damaged with a large central hole. Below, horizontal bands of interlocking diamond patterns frame repeating rows of stylized heads with square eyes and abstracted feline figures with hooked limbs in yellow and red. The condition is weathered, with jagged edges and missing sections throughout both rectangular pieces.

Textile Fragment with Frontal Deity Heads, Felines, and Interlace Pattern

700–400 BCE

Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Yauca Valley(?)

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