Band

Textiles

A.D. 400/900

Nazca
Probably south coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Nasca
Title: Band
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date: Made 400 CE–900 CE
Medium: Sisal, cotton, and wool (camelid), open work of oblique interlaced tapes and slit tapestry weave with wrapping outlining wefts; braided warp fringe
Dimensions: 195.6 × 4.1 cm (77 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1597
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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, December 9, 2004- April 14, 2005

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, 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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