Tassel

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Textiles

A.D. 500/900

Nazca
Peru, south coast, Probably Nazca Valley

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Culture: Nazca
Title: Tassel
Origin: Peru
Date: Made 500 CE–900 CE
Medium: Wool (camelid), oblique interlinked and interlaced warp (sprang); crossknit looping over folded unworked warps; sides joined with wool (camelid) in overcast stitch
Dimensions: 32.7 × 21.6 cm (12 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.1795

Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichete des Altan Peru (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. I.
Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth, 1924), 57, pl. I.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, February 17- May 12, 1987

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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