Images(4)

Border fragments

about 200

Object PlacePeru

Medium/TechniqueCotton and wool cross-knit looping

DimensionsOther (Height x width: part d): 5 x 15 cm (1 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Other (Height x width: part e): 8 x 9 cm (3 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Height x width: part c): 6 11/16 x 1 9/16 in. (17 x 4 cm)

Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession number16.37a-e

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsTextiles

Collections

ProvenanceOctober, 1915, sold by Enrique Mestanza, Pisco, Peru, to Julio C. Tello, Francisco Graña Reyes, and Gonzalo Carbajal, Lima [see note 1]; 1915/1916, sold by Julio Tello to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA [see note 2]; 1916, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 3, 1916)

NOTES:
[1] On the sale of the Mestanza collection, see Anne Paul, ed., Paracas: Art and Architecture (Iowa City, 1991), pp. 36-38 and Richard Daggett, A Tello-Centric History of Peruvian Archaeology part 2, pp. 360, 386-387. [2] Ross purchased a number of textiles and fragments from Tello (probably acting for Carbajal) between December 27, 1915 and January 8, 1916. When they were accessioned by the MFA (accession nos. 16.30-16.42), they were mistakenly believed to have been found by Tello himself "[in a cemetery] three or four miles south of Pisco."