Object Name: Textile panel with corner design

Culture: Nasca/Wari culture

Place of Origin: South Coast of Peru

Date/Era: Circa 700-900 C.E.

Medium/Materials: Cotton, natural and indigo-dyed; plain weave with weft-float patterning

Dimensions: 127 x 47 cm

Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of the Wellcome Trust.

Accession Number: X65.11861

This panel is complete with all four selvages. (It was intended as one of two that would have formed a larger cloth.)

A cloth with one decorated corner begs to be completed with a companion panel. A related textile with four extant corners and a very similar design and layout was found in Monte Grande in the Nasca Valley. Sometimes two or three panels like this one are used to form a square cloth that has burial associations and may form part of a garment or special wrapping cloth.

Source: Elena Phipps, The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth. Ancient Threads / New Directions. Fowler Museum Textile Series, No. 12, Los Angeles, 2013