# Panel

- By: Lambayeque (North coast, Peru)
- Date: 1000-1476
- Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave
- Classification: Textile
- Dimensions: 77.5 × 23.5 cm (30 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Culture: Peru
- Credit line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/181388)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9f56c628-6873-2ba4-a1c4-bde46b906d0d/full/!900,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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