Poncho
Chuquibamba (south coast, Peru)
1300-1550
- Medium
- Camelid wool, single interlocking tapestry weave and five-color complementary weft weave with center band of complementary weft weave
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 199.4 × 257.5 cm (78 1/2 × 101 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Peru
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
At least three weavers worked together to create this large textile. Their collaboration can be perceived in subtle vertical junctures in the threads, which appear at points throughout the gridded background. These lines divided their individual working areas. Ponchos were male garments, and this laboriously made example was likely a prestigious offering in the burial of an important man.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
