Poncho - Wool.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1919
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
notes: label: Notes
content: Note re digital photos taken by, and on file with, NMNH Imaging/Smithsonian Photographic Services in 2005: they were shot as 600 dpi tiffs (at 8 x 10) and the following views were taken - Neg. # 2005-11357, view of entire textile laid flat; Neg. # 2005-11358, view of right half of textile; Neg. # 2005-11359, view of left half of textile (condition is worse on this half).
label: Notes
content: From card: "Red with yellow, stepped deco. around neck slit; skirt, white with 4 black squares & broad black borders is ragged. Material: Alpaca. Technique: Very fine dove-tailed tapestry. Warp chained at edge. Remarks: Inca? Cotton ties at several points. -Elizabeth King and Irene Emery (1960's)"
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 3, p. 69 in Phipps, Elena, "Woven Documents: Color, Design and Cultural Origins of the Textiles in the Getty Murúa," in Cummins, Tom, Emily A. Engel, Barbara Anderson, and Juan M. Ossio A. 2014. Manuscript cultures of colonial Mexico and Peru: new questions and approaches: 65-84. Identified there: "Inca Tunic with q'asana design. Peru, early 16th century, camelid hair, 72.5 x 87.5 cm (28 1/2 x 34 1/2 in.)." "The four-square inscribed design referred to by Guaman Poma as q'asana and shown in Murúa's illustration of Mayta Capac's tunic ... is also a type that has been preserved in a number of extant examples, including ... [this] brown-and-white tunic with a red neck yoke ...." Illus. Fig. 12, p. 104 in Phipps, Elena. "Aspects of Nobility Colonial Andean Uncus and Their Inca Models." Hali,167, 2011, 97-111, https://www.academia.edu/31486801/Aspects_of_Nobility_Colonial_Andean_Uncus_and_Their_Inca_Models_Hali_Magazine_Issue_167_2011?source=swp_share .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Dec 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ica, Peru, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Inca (Inka)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 063780
label: USNM Number
content: A307655-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tunic