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Frammento di tessuto con decorazione di coppie di uccellini stilizzati

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Titolo dell'opera:

Fabric fragment

Acquisizione:

Schmidt y Pizarro 1933 acquisto

Ambito culturale:

cultura Nazca, tarda

Author/ School/ Dating:

Fabric fragment

Object Type:

Fabric fragment

Epoca:

IX - 800 - 900

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 16.1; Larghezza: 13.8

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Tecnica:

cotone- punto ad arazzo

Ultimi prestiti:

Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova/ Castello D'Albertis - 1972/1977<br>Le mani delle Americhe - Genova/ Laboratorio didattico S.Agostino - 1995/96

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Descrizione:

Fragment of rectangular tapestry stitch fabric made up of two pieces with a natural cotton warp and camelid fiber wefts that draw within squares, pairs of stylized two-headed birds which form a stylized face. The squares, colored brown, red/pink, red and green, are arranged in a checkerboard pattern with a diagonal pattern due to the alternation of colors and alternated with checkerboard squares in yellow and brown, red/pink, green or red. Unstitched and stitched detachments. Double-sided fabric. Bouclé stitch embroidery on a selvage.

Figurina antropomorfa raffigurante un guerriero

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Author/ School/ Dating:

Anthropomorphic figurine depicting a warrior

Technique and Dimensions:

Cotton and camelid fibre

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Circular bouclé stitch embroidery, double-face, funeral equipment
C.I.C. 79, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957

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Author/ School/ Dating:

Two ornithomorphic embroideries

Technique and Dimensions:

Cotton and camelid fibre

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Balanced canvas embroidered in bouclé stitch, funerary equipment
C.I.C. 75/78, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957

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Author/ School/ Dating:

Male coca pouch

Technique and Dimensions:

Cotton and camelid fibre

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Chuspa (male pouch for carrying coca leaves) with fringe and decorative llama motif

Double-sided cloth (leggermente a faccia di ordito) with only one side complete, grave goods
C.I.C. 72, Donated by M. Marini Montesoro,1957

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Author/ School/ Dating:

Showcase

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

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Titolo dell'opera:

Cloak brooches

Acquisizione:

Collezione Missioni Cattoliche Americane 1893 donazione

Ambito culturale:

ambito America meridionale

Author/ School/ Dating:

Cloak brooches

Object Type:

cloak brooches

Epoca:

XIX - 1893 - 1893

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 1; Lunghezza: 13; Varie: Diametro massimo cm 1.2; lunghezza massima cm 20.; Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 2.5; Diametro: 0.3; Lunghezza: 15.4; Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 0.9; Lunghezza: 16.7; Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 1; Lunghezza: 17.7; Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 1; Lunghezza: 15; Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 1; Lunghezza: 16.5; Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 0.9; Lunghezza: 15; Unità di misura: cm; Unità di misura: cm; Unità di misura: cm

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Tecnica:

bronzo

Ultimi prestiti:

Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova, Castello D'Albertis - 1972-1977

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Descrizione:

Brooches of various lengths, seven of which with a conical head and one (C.A.1695/1) with a head made up of a thin rectangular plate with rounded corners. They were originally used to stop cloaks.

Tre fusi con fusaiole in terracotta incisa

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Titolo dell'opera:

Spindle

Acquisizione:

J. Puccio 1927 acquisto

Ambito culturale:

ambito peruviano

Author/ School/ Dating:

Spindle

Object Type:

spindle

Epoca:

XIX

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 0.7; Lunghezza: 22; Varie: Diametro massimo fusaiola cm 2.8

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Tecnica:

legno intagliato

Ultimi prestiti:

Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova, Castello D’Albertis - 1972-1977

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Descrizione:

Dark wood wand with a single pointed end and terracotta spindle. One surface of the terracotta is flat, the other is shaped and decorated with radial incisions.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Twenty-five Spindles

Acquisizione:

Esso Standard s.d. donazione

Ambito culturale:

ambito Ancón

Author/ School/ Dating:

Twenty-five Spindles

Epoca:

XII-II century BCE

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Lunghezza: 31; Varie: I fusi hanno dimensioni variabili.

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Tecnica:

legno, canna, terracotta

Ultimi prestiti:

L'America indigena nelle collezioni del Civico Istituto Colombiano di Genova - Palazzo Doria, Genova - Marzo 1990

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Descrizione:

Three groups of spindles including: (1) three wire spindles of which two have terracotta spindles engraved with painted circular patterns and one pointed at one end only. 2) six polychrome-banded painted spindles of which four have engraved and painted spindles 3) sixteen spindles of which nine are painted with polychrome bands (two with only one end pointed and the other carved), four with spindles of which one is made of reed and three of which are made of engraved and painted terracotta, three with wire of which one is with an engraved and painted spindle and two with reed wire clips.

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Titolo dell'opera:

Needle holder

Acquisizione:

Mario Marini Montesoro 1957 donazione

Ambito culturale:

ambito Ancón

Author/ School/ Dating:

Needle holder

Object Type:

needle holder

Epoca:

XII-II b.C. - 1200 b.C. - 101 b.C.

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Diametro: 2.5; Lunghezza: 23

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Tecnica:

osso, fibra vegetale e animale

Ultimi prestiti:

L’America indigena nelle collezioni del Civico Istituto Colombiano di Genova - Palazzo Doria, Genova - Marzo 1990

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Traditional textiles of the Andes

Descrizione:

Long hollow bone closed at one end by a piece of animal fibre. About three-quarters of its length is covered in plant and animal fibre. Four bands made of thin wrapped twine.

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Author/ School/ Dating:

Tupu, XII – II sec. b.C. (Ancón)

Technique and Dimensions:

Metal ( silver )

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Tupu, XII – II sec. b.C. (Ancón)

Tupu (coat pin) with head decorated with spiral patterns

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