Fragment
Chancay
750/1100
Medium
Cotton and wool (camelid), bands of two-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps, double cloth, and plain weave; embroidered with wool (camelid) in chain stitches
Dimensions
22.2 × 24.1 cm (8 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85173
About the Artist
Chancay
The Chancay were a pre-Columbian culture that flourished along the central coast of Peru, in the valleys of the Huaura, Chancay, Chillón, and surrounding rivers, from approximately 1000 to 1470 CE. Emerging after the decline of the Wari civilization, the Chancay developed a distinctive artistic identity that set them apart from their Andean contemporaries, one defined above all by extraordinary ma...