Fragment
Chancay
1000-1476
Medium
Cotton, plain weave and cotton and wool (camelid), slit and tapestry weave with eccentric and wrapping outline wefts with slit tapestry tab fringe
Dimensions
28.6 × 19.6 cm (11 1/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85203
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...