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Nasca brocaded fabric
Nasca artisan200 BC - 600 AD
Amano Pre-Columbian Textile Museum
Lima, Peru
Important Nasca mantle, woven with the plain weave technique, decorated with geometrized zoomorphic designs in brocade technique. Characters in different forms: birds, winged creatures and probably frogs.
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Details
- Title: Nasca brocaded fabric
- Creator: Nasca artisan
- Date Created: 200 BC - 600 AD
- Physical Location: Amano Precolumbian Textile Museum, Lima
- Location Created: Lima, Perú
- Physical Dimensions: Height 1450 mm x Width 890 mm
- Provenance: Donation
- Subject Keywords: pottery, Brocade, birds, Flyers, Nasca, Nazca, Frogs
- Type: Ornamental and utilitarian object
- External Link: Amano Precolumbian Textile Museum
- Medium: Cotton thread and camelid fiber threads probably alpaca and vegetable dyes
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