Headband or Belt Fragments

Textiles

A.D. 1476/1532

Provincial Inca
Possibly Ocoña Valley, south coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Inca
Title: Headband or Belt Fragments
Origin: Peru
Date: Made 1476–1532
Dimensions: a: 64.8 × 3.2 cm (25 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.) b: 62.2 × 3.8 cm (24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1601a-b
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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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