Sleeved Tunic
Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people · 1460s–1532 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Chancay (chan-kai) people of Peru’s central coast created one of the ancient Andes’s best-known textile legacies through artistically elaborate men’s tunics and loin cloths, women’s dresses and headcloths, and shawl-like mantles. Two traits indicate that this tunic is a high-prestige garment: its labor-intensive tapestry-woven technique and its substantial use of alpaca fiber imported from the adjacent highlands.
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- Maker
- Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people
- Date
- 1460s–1532
- Medium
- Cotton, camelid fiber
- Dimensions
- length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.)
- Place of origin
- Central Andes
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0