Collection record · Dress & textiles
Feathered Panel
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 600–900. Recorded culture or place: Peru, Far South Coast, Pampa Ocoña, 7th-10th century.
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- Museum title
- Feathered Panel
- Date
- 600–900
- Culture / origin
- Peru, Far South Coast, Pampa Ocoña, 7th-10th century
- Materials and technique
- Papagayo macaw feathers knotted onto strings and stitched to cotton plain-weave cloth; camelid fiber plain-weave cloth upper tape
- Dimensions
- Overall: 81.3 x 223.5 cm (32 x 88 in.); Mounted: 94 x 236.2 cm (37 x 93 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2002.93
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Of all the luxury textile types made in the ancient Andes, feathered cloth was one of the most esteemed. This panel may come from a buried offering that contained more than a half-dozen large human-effigy vessels made of ceramic; inside the vessels were 96 rolled panels, all covered with the feathers of the tropical blue-and-yellow macaw. The ties that survive on the upper corners of some panels suggest they served as hangings that transformed a space from mundane to radiant and ceremonial.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund · CC0
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