Gauze Fragment

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Culture Chimú

Title Gauze Fragment

Date Ca. 1000

Medium Cotton

Dimensions Object: 15 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (38.7 × 34.9 cm)
Overall: 15 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (38.7 × 34.9 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 72.49.11

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This open-weave gauze textile fragment is embellished with supplementary thread patterns that create the motifs, which have been outlined with additional thread. Likely part of a larger textile, imagery in this fragment includes figures that illustrate anthropomorphized felines. Although this cloth is from the Chancay Valley in the area of Peru’s central coast, the figures depicted relate to the Chimú style of the north coast.

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"Gauze Fragment | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=72.49.11