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

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

700–400 BCE
(?)
camelid fiber; double-cloth with structural embroidery
Overall: 83.2 x 21.6 cm (32 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2005.14
Location: 232 Andean

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.
  • Ancient Andean Textiles (Gallery 232 rotation). 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).
  • {{cite web|title=Textile Fragment with Frontal Deity Heads, Felines, and Interlace Pattern|url=false|author=|year=700–400 BCE|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.14