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Man's Tunic (Cushma)

Man's Tunic (Cushma)

1970s
cotton, pigment
Overall: 119.4 x 119.4 cm (47 x 47 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1992.351
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This tunic’s designs may be based on the skin patterns of the legendary Great Boa.

Description

Women are the main artists among Peru’s Shipibo. The designs (kené) on this tunic are based on the skin patterns of the legendary Great Boa (the mother of water creatures) or the patterns that in mythic times covered the world like a web, today revealed by dreams, visions, and other means.
  • Odland, Claire, and Feldman, Nancy. Shipibo Textile Practices 1952-2010. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2010. . p. 1-9 digitalcommons.unl.edu
    Odland, J. Claire, and Ronald L Weber. 2016. “Chapter 6: Shipibo-Conibo Material Culture: Textiles and Ceramics in the Field Museum Collections.” Fieldiana. Anthropology 45 (45): 63–79. p. 63-79 www.jstor.org
    Bergh, Susan E. “Things That Don’t Fit (Here).” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 18. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 18.
  • Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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