Panel
Lambayeque (North coast, Peru)
1000-1476
- Medium
- Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 76 × 49.2 cm (30 × 19 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Peru
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham 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
Lambayeque textiles typically consist of multiple weavings joined together to create larger panels and garments. This panel feature repeating rows of designs, with motifs including a human figure and a large white bird, both wearing crescent headdresses. With this pairing of human and animal figures, the textile may allude to a legend of an ancestral lord who escaped death by sprouting wings and flying away.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
