Work Basket
Chancay (Central coast, Peru)
1000-1476
- Medium
- Reed, dyed split reed, and plied cotton
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 11.4 × 14 cm (12 × 4 1/2 × 5 1/2 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
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In central and southern coastal Peru, archaeologists have unearthed a variety of weaving tools and work baskets. These are often found in women’s burials, which suggests that spinning yarn and weaving textiles were the domain of women. This basket was probably made for a weaver to hold tools used in making textiles, such as needle cases, needles, spindles, and combs.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
