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Fringes in embroidered mantle fragment
Paracas Artisans800 B.C. - 200 A.D.
Amano Pre-Columbian Textile Museum
Lima, Peru
Fringes in an embroidered mantle. The design represents intertwined heads of snakes. Probably, this piece was the top of a textile object for the nobility.
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Details
- Title: Fringes in embroidered mantle fragment
- Creator: Paracas Artisans
- Date Created: 800 B.C. - 200 A.D.
- Physical Location: Amano Precolumbian Textile Museum, Lima
- Location Created: Paracas, Ica, Perú
- Provenance: Donation
- Subject Keywords: Textiles, Embroidery, Mantle, Paracas
- Type: Funerary embroidered mantle
- External Link: Amano Precolumbian Textile Museum
- Medium: Cotton thread and camelid fiber threads probably alpaca and vegetable dyes
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