Unknown Central and South American
Jaguar Textile

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
Not on view

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Provenance[The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, until 2002]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
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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