CultureChimú or Chancay
Titles
- Jaguar Textile
Date800–1450 AD
PlacePeru
MediumWoven and dyed cotton
Dimensions34 1/2 × 50 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (87.6 × 128.3 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Richard D. Kinder, Meredith J. Long and Fayez Sarofim in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. at "One Great Night in November, 2002"
Object number2002.3241
Non exposé
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Department
Art of the Indigenous AmericasObject Type
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.
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1895–1905
Woven split spruce root and dyed reeds
Former listed medium: Spruce-root and other plant fibers
78.154
1898–1902
Woven split spruce root and dyed reeds
Former listed medium: Spruce-root and other plant fibers
78.157
late 18th–mid- 19th century
Cotton; plain weave, mordant painted and dyed, resist-dyed
B.61.47