About the Artwork
Textile Fragment
between 800 and 900
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Precolumbian
Unknown
Cotton and probably alpaca
Overall: 21 1/2 × 50 1/4 inches (54.6 × 127.6 cm)
Textiles
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund.
49.283
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Provenance
1949-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Stone, Rebecca R. "Representations of the san Pedro (Trichocerus spp.) cactus flower and the Anadenanthera colubrina plant in Wari textiles and Tiwanaku art." Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino vol. 28, no. 1 (2023): pp. 221-245; cat. no. Tunic21b.
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Precolumbian, Textile Fragment, between 800 and 900, cotton and probably alpaca. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund., 49.283.
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