Panel
Chimú (Peru, Possibly north coast)
1250-1470
- Medium
- Cotton and camelid wool, slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 57.5 × 54.3 cm (22 5/8 × 21 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
Chimú artists commonly repeated abstract motifs in a regular pattern, as seen here in the arrangement of zoomorphic figures within three rows of squares bordered with motifs that suggest waves and stepped triangles. Some of the animal forms on the panel resemble splayed frogs; others resist identification. The staffs held by these creatures may connect them to the humanlike ones that frequently appear in Chimú textiles, such as this loincloth also in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
