Headband or Belt Fragment

Textiles

A.D. 1476/1532

Provincial Inca
Probably south coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Inca
Title: Headband or Belt Fragment
Origin: Peru
Date: Made 1476–1532
Medium: compound weave
Dimensions: 91.4 × 6.4 cm (36 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1609
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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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