Border Fragments

Provenance

Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru, by June 14, 1956 [incoming receipt RX1914, June 14, 1956, sent care of Rudolfo Byrne, Brooklyn, NY; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

Border Fragments

Nasca

100 BCE-200 CE

Accession Number

3016

Medium

Cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; embroidered with wool (camelid) and cotton in stem stitches; edged with simple looping tabs

Dimensions

a: 27.9 × 12.7 cm (11 × 5 in.); b: 7.6 × 11.4 cm (3 × 4 1/2 in.); c: 4.8 × 5.7 cm (1 7/8 × 2 1/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland