Coca or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña)

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 or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña)

Quechua

Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Accession Number

85491

Medium

Wool and cotton, plain weave with patterning warps; joined with wool in darning stitches

Dimensions

71.8 × 60.6 cm (28 1/4 × 23 7/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment