Fragment of a Band
- Culture
- Nasca
- Date
- c.400–700
- Material
- Camelid fiber and cotton
- made in
- Peru, South America
- Classification
- Textiles
- Collection
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 56 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (142.8 x 3.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 185:1944
NOTES
Peruvian textiles frequently contain repeated imagery with alternating colors and inversions. These carefully devised patterns were highly symbolic, representing the organization of varied designs into a harmonious whole. The imagery on this textile could also evoke relationships between forms, particularly those in the natural world. Undulating tadpoles on the Nasca band invoke their eventual transformation into amphibians.
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