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Tlatollotl means "history" in Nahuatl. Art, artifacts, and archaeology of the Americas.

textile

Cultures/periods: Middle Horizon (?)

Production date: 600-900

Made in: South Coast Peru (?)

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile fragment; cotton plain weave ground cloth with camelid fibre supplementary weft patterning with each face showing a pattern of floats that is the negative of the other; feline(?) and geometric eight-pronged motifs with diamond 'eye' motifs arranged in diamond grid. Cream/brown and indigo.

textile

Cultures/periods: Chancay

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile; fringed border fragment; cotton warp and weft; slit tapestry; row of cleft-head figures with curled wings (bats?); bordered on either side by coloured stripes; fringe sewn along one edge: cotton warps and camelid wefts; plain weave with wefts extended and looped to make fringe. Tan, brown, indigo.

Years ago the Centro Interpretativo sold car stickers that looked similar to this. But they stopped selling them before I started working in the area. So I made my own to put on my car!

I got my guachimontones car sticker yesterday but they stuffed it up and didn't reverse it so I could put it on the inside of the window like I wanted. And I did checkmark that I wanted it reverse cut.

They're sending a replacement

Years ago the Centro Interpretativo sold car stickers that looked similar to this. But they stopped selling them before I started working in the area. So I made my own to put on my car!

I got my guachimontones car sticker yesterday but they stuffed it up and didn't reverse it so I could put it on the inside of the window like I wanted. And I did checkmark that I wanted it reverse cut.

textile

Cultures/periods: Chancay (?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Fringed textile border fragment; loincloth side border?; shaped to semi-circle at one end; cotton warp and camelid fibre weft; slit tapestry with eccentric weft outlining of figures; long slits closed by dovetailing; interlocked birds; remnants of cotton plain weave fabric sewn at one edge; attached border of cross knit loop stitch with fringing at one end. Cream and brown cotton with pink, tan, brown, indigo, red, black and white camelid fibre.

textile

Cultures/periods: Chimu (?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Almost-complete textile; possibly a tunic - unsewn sides but look as though sewn at one time - pulled wefts; two textiles sewn together; slit tapestry; cotton warps and wefts; large-scale patterning of diagonal bands - interlocked rectilinear birds facing alternate directions, and interlocked 'V' shapes; fringed border is sewn on at either end - cotton warps with camelid wefts extended to make fringe; natural cotton browns, blue and blue/green, tan camelid.

textile

Cultures/periods: Chancay (?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile; border fragment; slit tapestry; cotton warps and camelid wefts; central design band split into squares, alternately with bird motifs and geometric motifs; bordered on either side by narrow tapestry stripes; fringe sewn along one edge: plain weave; cotton warps and camelid wefts extended to make fringe; tan, brown and red.

textile

Cultures/periods: Lambayeque (?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile fragment; cotton warps, camelid wefts; slit tapestry with remnants of cross knit loop stitch on weft selvedge; three rectangular colour fields, each featuring two anthropomorphic figures - one left-facing and one right-facing, bearing staffs or agricultural implements; figures are flanked on either side by two birds; browns, green, cream.