Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
name: label: Donor Name
content: Christian Pettersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Wool and cotton blanket, aniline and natural dyes. Weft-faced tapestry weave. Average count: 6 x 12. There are small borders on top and bottom, and brown triangles on the sides. The interior pattern is multicolored diamonds, in yellow, red, brown, white and teal.
label: Notes
content: "The blanket's central field is filled with Inca diamonds, each solid colored rhomb enclosed by a thin black one. The border design of the blanket shows a derivative from the triangles on all four sides first seen in blankets during the decade of the 1950s. In the blanket… the cotton string was handspun and twisted into yarns forming the white color in the blankets central field. The blanket was collected in 1994 in Cochamarca from Benjamin Valencia Perez who stated that it was woven in Succha. ???? (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Notes
content: There is no fraying. There is no insect damage. There is no dye running. The blanket is negative to light test and demonstrates good weight. The colors are vibrant. There is slight mis-matching along the seam causing wrinkling. The textile is in stable condition, new and almost unused. (Information abridged from the 2-volume manuscript "Age Analysis for the Christian Pettersen Collection of Huamachuco Blankets to the Smithsonian Institution", by Joseph Fabish, January 20, 2009. These volumes are housed at the National Anthropological Archives.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quechua
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2047706
label: USNM Number
content: E432113-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 198 cm
label: Width
content: 154 cm