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Conservation Status: After Treatment
Mantle
Conservation Status: After Treatment

Mantle

A.D. 700–900
Object PlacePeru
Medium/TechniqueWool [camelid] plain weave with discontinuous warps and wefts, disassembled, tie-dyed, and reassembled
Dimensions114 x 187 cm (44 7/8 x 73 5/8 in.)
Credit LineTextile Fund and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1983.252
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
Description

For thousands of years in the ancient Andean world, women were the primary producers of the all-important textiles for the household and the state.

ProvenanceBy about 1957, François Piraud, Rome [see note]; 1983, sold by François Piraud to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 15, 1983)

NOTE: Mr. Piraud first offered this mantle to the MFA on November 10, 1977, at which time he attested that it had been in his collection for twenty years.