Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 1995
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Fabish
label: Donor Name
content: Christian Pettersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Synthetic and cotton blanket, aniline and natural dyes. Warp-faced plain weave. Average count: 17 x 6. Striped pattern of 16 different colors. The binding is black cotton ribbon. The white stripes are naturally dyed cotton.
label: Notes
content: "By the end of the 1990s, the entire field of blankets began to appear exclusively using synthetic colored fibers. Mottled yarns used in blanket weaving is extremely rare in the blanket area. The blanket …was collected in Mollebamba in 1995 from Violeta Lavado Zegarra who indicated that the blanket was woven outside the blanket area in Huamachuco pueblo. Warp-faced plain weaves woven on back-strap looms have been used since pre-Inca times over most of sierra and coast[al] Peru. They are woven in one long strip, then cut in two, joined at the center so that there are three selvages and one cut end which is usually sewn to keep from fraying or a ribete is placed over the cut edge and possible on all four edges of the weaving. Blankets exclusively using synthetic fibers are less than ten years old. I suggest that the blanket was woven between 1998-2008." (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 or insect damage. There is light staining. The blanket is negative to light test and demonstrates good weight. The blanket is new and relatively unused. Some yarns are mottled. (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: 16 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mollebamba, La Libertad, 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: E432110-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 178 cm
label: Width
content: 163 cm