Poncho Shirt (with dangles featuring birds and fish)

Poncho Shirt (with dangles featuring birds and fish)

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Poncho Shirt (with dangles featuring birds and fish)
CultureChimú
Titles
  • Poncho Shirt (with dangles featuring birds and fish)
Date1100–1532 AD
PlacePeru
MediumWool, gold, pearls, and cotton thread
Dimensions34 3/4 × 40 7/8 × 2 in. (88.3 × 103.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1183
Non exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1972 [Glassell Album #8, slide dated "FEB 72"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1183

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