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Sleeved Tunic

1460s–1532

Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people

Medium
Cotton, camelid fiber
Measurements
length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2017.193
Public Domain
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Location
232 Andean
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Description

The Chancay (chan-kai) people of Peru’s central coast created one of the ancient Andes’s best-known textile legacies through artistically elaborate men’s tunics and loin cloths, women’s dresses and headcloths, and shawl-like mantles. Two traits indicate that this tunic is a high-prestige garment: its labor-intensive tapestry-woven technique and its substantial use of alpaca fiber imported from the adjacent highlands.
Sleeved tunic laid flat with rectangular sleeves jutting out at the sides and a narrow "v"-shaped slit in the middle. Alternating vertical bands of medium-brown and a serrated spiral pattern interlocking in muted light pink, cream, and shades of green run across the tunic. At the base of each band, a pattern like the silhouette of three steps cuts in, connecting to a cream band and switching directions at the center.

Sleeved Tunic

1460s–1532

Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people

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