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THBStunning Chancay Woven Textile, Ex-Museum
Lot 120a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
May 24, 2018
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2018-05-24 10:00:00
2018-05-24 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Northwest Coast, Tribal, & Pre-Columbian Art
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Featuring Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Art from respected collector / dealer, Joseph Alphabet. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Featuring Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Art from respected collector / dealer, Joseph Alphabet. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1300 to 1470 CE. Professionally framed in a heavy wood and glass setting, this ancient garment shows a dense, masterfully executed weave with red and brown woven decoration - a fractal-like, dark-on-light stepped pattern. A weaving such as this would have been reserved for only the most noble and elite of their day. Large, intact South American Pre-Columbian textiles are rare. This ancient textile was formerly in the museum collection of Bernard "Bud" Lueck who assembled his collection of historical objects of the Americas and founded the Heritage of the Americas Museum which is in operation today in El Cajon, California, USA. Size of textile: 1.5" W x 85" H (3.8 cm x 215.9 cm); size of original museum frame that accompanies the piece: 16" W x 12" H (40.6 cm x 30.5 cm)
The ancient textiles of this region and peoples were made up of hand spun and woven fibers. These fibers were either cotton or the wool of indigenous camelids that included the llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuna. Some textiles were made of dyed fibers, used alternatively with different colors to create patterns. Some textiles were woven of a few or single primary color with the design hand-painted on the cloth after the weaving was completed. Other textiles were embroidered and appliques of gold or silver were added within the weaving. Aside from burial mantles, woven garments included sleeveless shirts with or without fringes, small ponchos, tunics, and loincloths. Formal excavations at many of these Pre-Columbian cemeteries revealed that the many of the individual mummies were interred with only a single rough cotton wrapping. Others were wrapped with one or two ordinary cotton cloths, devoid of design or color. The richest graves consisted of individuals elaborately wrapped with two or three mantles decorated with patterns, colorful dyes and even more rarely, with embroidered borders of intricate designs.
Provenance: former Heritage of the Americas Museum which is in operation today in El Cajon, California, U.S.A and includes museum catalog ID card and museum info
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#134597No repair or restoration, slight fraying to ends and fading to colors.Condition
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