Mantle
date: label: Date
content: 16th–17th century
notes: label: Description
content: Mantle decorated with series of broad and narrow horizontal bands in reds, pale tan, cream, pale yellow, blues, silver. A broad band across the middle is made up of ten narrow bands, with adjacent rectangles containing Inca geometric patterns and some adapted Tiahuanaco eye forms, separated throughout and edged top and bottom with variety of guard stripes. Above and below this broad central band are slightly narrower pink bands, edged top and bottom with small stepped scallops and filled with close-set mermaids and bird, fish, animal and floral motives, seemingly scattered, but actually set symmetrically on either side of two central vases set one above the other in each band and filled with flowers and fruit. Two narrow bands with attendant varied guard stripes border the mantle at top and bottom; the inner red band is similar to the bands in the center of the mantle; the outer cream-grounded band contains a series of bird, fish, and floral motives symmetrically spaced on either side of the central axis of the mantle; pink guard stripes terminate the mantle at top and bottom.
place: label: made in
content: Peru
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-782
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Mantle
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: warp: cotton; weft: silk, metallic (silver strips wrapped around linen core) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry), interlocked Label: Silk, metallic thread tapestry
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 92.7 x 127 cm (36 1/2 x 50 in.)