Mantle with designs of crosses

This ceremonial mantle of large format is decorated with several crosses of irregular size and design in various brown tones. Only one of them, showed in yellow tones, mark the difference in the otherwise homogeneous composition of the weave, a detail that shows the intentionality of the artist to indicate something, probably an important date or event as part of a ritual calendar system. Because of the technique and the decorative pattern we suppose that this weave might have been manufactured by societies that inhabited the Central Coast during the Middle Horizon (600-1000 AD), years before the Chancay culture would gain predominance over the region. (CP)