Tunic

Description

This garment embodies an important principle of the Chimú textile aesthetic: a love of combining different textures, some dense and sculptural and others so open and airy they are nearly invisible. (The hand-spun yarns are only .1 to .2 millimeters in diameter.) It also elegantly articulates the simplified, spare visual vocabulary that the Chimú favored, here geometric motifs.

Provenance

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Tunic

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1100–1532

Accession Number

2011.111.1

Medium

white cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading

Dimensions

Overall: 57.2 x 151.1 cm (22 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.)

Classification

Textile

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund