Unknown Central and South American
Checkered Mantle

Checkered Mantle

Public Domain

Artist
CultureNasca
Titles
  • Checkered Mantle
Date100 BC–700 AD
PlacePeru
MediumTextile
DimensionsOverall: 62 × 42 1/2 in. (157.5 × 108 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.1074
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance[Splendors of the World, Haiku, Hawaii]; Gary Hendershott, Little Rock, AK; [Heritage Important Pre-Columbian Art of the Hendershott Collection, September 29, 2006, lot 47248]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, September 29, 2006–until d. 2008; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

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