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Author/ School/ Dating:
Installation of the Mesoamerican area
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Installation of the Mesoamerican area
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Titolo dell'opera:
Three fragments of fabric
Acquisizione:
Schmidt y Pizarro 1938 acquisto
Ambito culturale:
Paracas
Author/ School/ Dating:
Three fragments of fabric
Object Type:
Fabric fragment
Epoca:
XII-III b.C. - 1100 b.C. - 201 b.C.
Misure:
Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 23.7; Lunghezza: 37.2; Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 11.8; Lunghezza: 22; Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 5.5; Lunghezza: 21.5
Provenienza (nazione):
Perù
Tecnica:
cotone naturale e fibra camelide, tela bilanciata e punto erba
Ultimi prestiti:
Le mani delle americhe - Laboratorio didattico S. Agostino, Genova - nov-gen. 1995/96
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Three fragments probably belonging to the same natural cotton balanced canvas textile. The stem stitch made in natural cotton and camelid fibers designs male characters with bows, crescent-shaped headdresses, feathers and tunics with monochrome and bichrome faces on a bottle green background. The colors used are moss green, yellow, blue, brown, pink, red, light blue. The textile is not double-sided.
Three fragments of fabric
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Author/ School/ Dating:
Quipu
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Descrizione:
Quipu (system of cords with nodes that served for the calculation of objects, goods and to censure the population in the Inca empire)
Natural cotton, crowning, knotting, funeral goods
C.I.C. 107, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957
Quipu
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Spindles
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Descrizione:
three spindles for spinning with thread, two of which with engraved terracotta spindle
Carved wood, cane and terracotta, funerary equipment
C.I.C. 29-30, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957
Spindles
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Titolo dell'opera:
Fabric fragment
Acquisizione:
Schmidt y Pizarro 1933 acquisto
Ambito culturale:
Nazca
Author/ School/ Dating:
Fabric fragment
Object Type:
Fabric fragment
Epoca:
V-IX
Misure:
Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 15.3; Lunghezza: 28
Provenienza (nazione):
Perù
Tecnica:
cotone naturale e fibra camelide, punto ad arazzo
Ultimi prestiti:
Le mani delle americhe - Genova, Laboratorio didattico Sant'Agostino - Nov. 1995 - Gen. 1996
Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova, Castello D'Albertis - 1972-1977
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Rectangular fragment of tapestry stitch fabric. Warp in natural cotton and wefts in natural cotton and camelid fiber in yellow, light and dark brown, red/pink (background) which draw ornithomorphic figures in profile and stylized rays coupled on two superimposed registers. Separations sewn with natural cotton thread. The textile is double-faced.
Fabric fragment
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Titolo dell'opera:
Fabric fragment
Acquisizione:
Schimdt Y Pizarro 1938 acquisto
Ambito culturale:
Paracas Necropolis
Author/ School/ Dating:
Fabric fragment
Object Type:
Fabric fragment
Epoca:
V-II b.C. - 500 b.C. - 101 b.C.
Misure:
Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 29.5; Lunghezza: 15
Provenienza (nazione):
Perù
Tecnica:
cotone naturale e fibra camelide, tela bilanciata e punto erba
Ultimi prestiti:
Le mani delle Americhe - Genova, Laboratorio didattico Sant'Agostino - Nov. 1995 - Gen. 1996
Mostra d’Arte Precolombiana e di Etnologia Americana, Genova - Genova, Castello D'Albertis - 1972-1977
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Textile art is an extremely important medium among Andean cultural manifestations. The burials found on the southern desert coasts of Peru and northern Chile present funerary offerings in organic materials, including grave goods with weaving tools and fabrics with bright colors and extremely varied technical and iconographic solutions, in which the deceased is wrapped and accompanied in the afterlife.
The oldest needle-woven textile finds made of plant fibers found testify that the Andean populations had knowledge of spinning and weaving since 8.000 BC. Rectangular fragment of Paracas fabric made of natural cotton with balanced linen, part of a funerary item. The diagonal stem-stitch embroidery, in camelid fiber on a dark brown background, depicts two overlapping bat demons in flight. The figures are made one in red and the other in black-green, with eyes and mouth embroidered with yellow and red thread. The fabric is not double-sided.
The oldest needle-woven textile finds made of plant fibers found testify that the Andean populations had knowledge of spinning and weaving since 8.000 BC. Rectangular fragment of Paracas fabric made of natural cotton with balanced linen, part of a funerary item. The diagonal stem-stitch embroidery, in camelid fiber on a dark brown background, depicts two overlapping bat demons in flight. The figures are made one in red and the other in black-green, with eyes and mouth embroidered with yellow and red thread. The fabric is not double-sided.
Fabric fragment
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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
Le mani delle Americhe - Genova/ Laboratorio didattico S.Agostino - 1995/96
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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.
Fabric fragment
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Author/ School/ Dating:
Anthropomorphic figurine depicting a warrior
Technique and Dimensions:
Cotton and camelid fibre
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Descrizione:
Circular bouclé stitch embroidery, double-face, funeral equipment
C.I.C. 79, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957
Anthropomorphic figurine depicting a warrior
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Author/ School/ Dating:
Two ornithomorphic embroideries
Technique and Dimensions:
Cotton and camelid fibre
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Descrizione:
Balanced canvas embroidered in bouclé stitch, funerary equipment
C.I.C. 75/78, Donation M. Marini Montesoro, 1957
Two ornithomorphic embroideries
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Author/ School/ Dating:
Male coca pouch
Technique and Dimensions:
Cotton and camelid fibre
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Descrizione:
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
Male coca pouch
