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Border fragment

0–A.D. 200
Object PlacePeru
Medium/TechniqueWool plain weave with stem-stitch embroidery
Dimensions34.5 x 6.5 cm (13 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number16.36
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
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."
Restricted: For reference only
200 B.C.–0
Fragments
0–A.D. 200
Fragment
0–A.D. 200
Border fragment
100 B.C.–A.D. 100
Border fragment
0–A.D. 200
Border fragment
100 B.C.–0
Fragment
A.D. 100–200
Fragment
A.D. 100–200
Fragment
A.D. 100–200
Group shot: 1977.134a-d
A.D. 100–200
Border fragment
0–A.D. 200