tunic

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Geography:
Peru
Materials:
alpaca hair; cotton
Collection:
The Textile Museum Collection
Accession Number:
91.8
Credit Line:
Acquired by George Hewitt Myers prior to March 1940
Date:
1534-1821
Copyright:
Public domain
Object Type:
Textile
Dimensions:
24.00 L x 43.00 W cm (9 7/16 L x 16 15/16 W in)
Structure:
tapestry weave, interlocked
Style:
Inca style Spanish Colonial
Bibliography:
Joanne Pillsbury (Author), "Inka Unku: Strategy and Design in Colonial Peru", Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Cleveland Studies in the History of Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2002, vol. 7, p. 91, fig. 27
"Annual Report 2006", The Textile Museum , The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., 2008, p. 17 detail
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Exhibition History:
Seldom Seen: Director's Choice from the Museum's Collections, February 10, 2006 - July 30, 2006
Tapestries of Colonial Peru, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, October 12, 1968 - April 30, 1969
Peruvian Spanish-Colonial Textiles, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, March 13, 1961 - June 01, 1961
Peruvian Textiles, George Washington University Library, Washington DC, January 01, 1954 - January 31, 1954
Intrinsic Beauty: Celebrating the Art of Textiles, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington DC, February 22, 2025 - June 14, 2025
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Digitization of The Textile Museum Collection is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Shirley Z. Johnson and Charles Rumph Photography Fund and the Avenir Foundation, Inc.