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Ceremonial coca cloth
Ceremonial coca cloth

Ceremonial coca cloth

18th century
Object PlacePeru-Bolivia
Medium/TechniqueCotton and wool plain weave with white-striped warps floating on back to form designs; cross-knit loop stitch (edge)
Dimensions23.5 x 20 cm (9 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number21.2579
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceBy 1920, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1835 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1921, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 1, 1921)

NOTE: First lent by Ross to the MFA on April 1, 1920.
Group shot: 16.30, 16.34, 16.39
Skirt
A.D. 50–100
Textile fragment
Textile fragment
A.D. 1000–1476
Tunic
Tunic
A.D. 500–1476
Group shot: 78.107a-c
Set of roundels
1000–1476
Tunic
Tunic
1476–1534
Loincloth end
Loincloth end
A.D. 1000–1476
Fragment of a wall hanging with a servant opening a curtain
Fragment of a wall hanging with a servant opening a curtain
400-550
Face veil (burqa)
Face veil (burqa)
early 20th century
Fragment of a curtain
Fragment of a curtain
4th–6th century A.D.
Dionysos (fragment from a wall hanging)
Dionysos (fragment from a wall hanging)
4th–5th century
Embroidered cover (colcha)
Embroidered cover (colcha)
mid-17th - early 18th centuries
Tunic
Tunic
A.D. 1000–1476