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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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
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund