Painted Wrapping for Mummy
c.1100–1400 A.D.
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Painted Wrapping for Mummy, c.1100–1400 A.D.. Peru, Central Coast, Chancay, 12th-15th century. Plain cloth, painted; cotton; average: 63.5 x 360.5 cm (25 x 141 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.494 Fine textiles were one of the most prestigious commodities in the ancient Andes.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- plain cloth, painted; cotton
- Dimensions
- Average: 63.5 x 360.5 cm (25 x 141 15/16 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1940.494
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Pre-Columbian Peruvian Exhibition. Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, WI (June-July 1953).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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