Fragment

Textiles

Possibly 500/600

Nazca
South coast, Peru

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Culture: Nazca
Title: Fragment
Origin: Peru
Date: Made 500 CE–600 CE
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with outlining wefts
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1731b

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, May 27- August 18, 1988
Art Institute of Chicago, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, October 28, 1992-January 17, 1993
The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian art, August 25- December 5, 2003
Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham S.C. and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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