Headband

Textiles

A.D. 800/1100

Provincial Wari
Possibly central coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Wari
Title: Headband
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date: Made 800 CE–1100
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), outer band of single interlocking tapestry weave; inner band of two-color complementary weft weave; joined in wool (camelid), cross-knit loop stitches
Dimensions: 48.3 × 8.3 cm (19 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1641
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Art Institute of Chicago, Mexican, Central and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, October 28, 1992-January 17, 1993.

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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