Embroidered Textile Fragment

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Culture Nazca

Title Embroidered Textile Fragment

Date Ca. 600

Medium Cotton and wool

Dimensions Overall: 6 3/8 x 29 1/4 in. (16.2 x 74.3 cm)
Object: 6 3/8 × 29 1/4 in. (16.2 × 74.3 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 61.108

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Nazca textiles are typically decorated with images and motifs based upon the natural world. Often depicting totemic animals or images related to mythology. This example has repeated design motifs including a llama, an animal of great importance within Peru.

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