Headband

Textiles

1900/50

Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Headband
Origin: Peru
Date: Made 1900–1950
Medium: Silk, cotton and silver metal foil wound around a silk fiber core; warp-faced plain weave with supplementary weft
Inscriptions: RECIBE MI VOLUNTAD (Receive my will)
Dimensions: 56.5 × 2.9 cm (22 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1622

Art Institute of Chicago, Folk Art Textiles from the Permanent Collection, November 8, 1980-March 1, 1981.

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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