The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Textile Fragment with Three Frontal Deities and Interlace Pattern
700–400 BCE
Location: Not on view
Description
This textile fragment and (2005.14), 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 remainsunknown.
- Ancient Andean Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 2023-December 8, 2024).Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 23, 2017-August 27, 2018).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.13