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Group shot: 16.34a-c
Man's mantle and two border fragments
Group shot: 16.34a-c

Man's mantle and two border fragments

A.D. 50–100
Object PlacePeru
Medium/TechniqueWool (camelid fiber) plain weave, embroidered with wool (camelid fiber)
DimensionsOverall (a): 101 x 244.3 cm (39 3/4 x 96 3/16 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number16.34a-c
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
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."