Coca Bag (Chuspa)

Provenance

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

Coca Bag (Chuspa)

Quechua

Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Accession Number

85664

Medium

Cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave, and plain weave with paired warps and supplementary patterning warps; applied tubular crossed-warp edging in complex bird's eye; attached cotton and wool (camelid), crossed-warp strap

Dimensions

14 × 14.9 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)

Classification

bag - weaving

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment