Collection record · Dress & textiles
Band with Trophy Heads
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 100 BCE–700 CE. Recorded culture or place: Peru, South Coast, Nasca.
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- Museum title
- Band with Trophy Heads
- Date
- 100 BCE–700 CE
- Culture / origin
- Peru, South Coast, Nasca
- Materials and technique
- interlocking warp and weft, single interlock: wool
- Dimensions
- Overall: 180.7 x 21.6 cm (71 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.); Mounted: 193 x 30.5 cm (76 x 12 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1953.475
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This band, remarkable for its intense color and spider-web sheerness, was created using an unusual technique known as discontinuous warp and weft. That is, none of the vertical or horizontal yarns are continuous from one side of the band to the other. Rather, they travel back and forth within their own color areas, linking at the edges with yarns in adjacent areas. This is a difficult feat when weaving on a loom and the creator likely used another approach, such as darning with a needle over a ground cloth that was then removed. The image repeated in each of the band’s rectangles is a head supported on two little feet.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of John Wise · CC0
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