**Originally Listed At $400**
Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A lovely textile panel fragment composed of tightly-woven camelid (llama or alpaca wool) fibers in hues of marigold, vermilion, and wheat. Several zigzagging bands of yellow and red course across the body and are adorned with dot-filled circles in alternating colors, and the solid bars in-between the red and yellow display a dark-yellow color. Mounted against a black fabric display panel. Size (textile): 14" L x 12" W (35.6 cm x 30.5 cm); size (display panel): 17.75" L x 15.75" W (45.1 cm x 40 cm).
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Gary Drimmer collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA, aquired before 1980
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Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
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Condition
This is a fragment from a larger textile. Light loosening and fraying to interior fibers, with minor fading and staining to original pigmentation, and light creasing. Coloration is still visible.