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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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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Unknown Central and South American
1000–1450 AD
Dyed and woven cotton and camelid wool, hair, fiber, and reeds
2002.3248.1
Unknown Central and South American
1200–1532 AD
Woven cotton and feathers
2004.1662
Unknown Central and South American
900–200 BC
Polychromatic woven textile
2010.1077
Unknown Central and South American
100 BC–700 AD
Cotton and/or camelid wool
2010.1073