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Detail of a large Nazca poncho or tunic, made around 100-200 AD. Brooklyn Museum collxns.

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Poncho or Tunic   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Unknown creatorUnknown creator, Nasca culture, Peru
Title
Poncho or Tunic
Description
English: Depicts one of the three large figures on the textile, each one different, shown wearing headdresses, masks, ponchos, a skirt and loincloths. They hold trophy heads, knives and arrows in their hands. The smaller figures are attached to the ends of serpent or ribbon-like extensions from the belts, headdresses, tails and mouths of the large figures. The textile was converted into a poncho in antiquity, when a head opening was made at the center and long tassels were added at the shoulders. It was used as a funeral garment, and found in an ancient grave on the South Coast of Peru. The extraordinarily dry climate in that part of Peru explains the remarkable preservation of this and many other antiquities.
Depicted place Peru
Date between 100 CE and 200 CE
Medium Cotton, camelid fiber
Dimensions 189.1 × 70 cm (74.4 × 27.5 in)
institution QS:P195,Q632682
Current location
Arts of the Americas
Accession number
34.1579
Place of discovery South Coast, Peru
Object history Prior to 1933, provenance not yet documented; by 1933, acquired by an unidentified individual; October 5, 1933, sold at Puttick & Simpson, London, lot 36; between October 5, 1933 and 1934, provenance not yet documented; by 1934, acquired by John Wise, Ltd., New York, NY; 1934 purchased from John Wise, Ltd. by the Brooklyn Museum.
Exhibition history American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The Americas’ First Peoples, 4000 B.C.E.–1521 C.E.
Credit line Alfred W. Jenkins Fund
Notes Nasca. Poncho or Tunic, 100-200 C.E. Camelid fiber, 74 7/16 x 27 9/16 in. (189.1 x 70 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Alfred W. Jenkins Fund, 34.1579 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 34.1579_front.jpg)
Source/Photographer https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/38958

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