id: 119675 accession number: 1940.514 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.514 updated: 2021-11-18 17:56:59.331000 Tunic, 400-200 BC. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site?, Paracas people. Looped camelid fiber; average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.514 title: Tunic title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 400-200 BC creation date earliest: -400 creation date latest: -200 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site?, Paracas people technique: looped camelid fiber department: Textiles collection: T - Pre-Columbian type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Americas opening date: 1945-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946). title: Fiberworks: Tradition and Technique opening date: 1977-10-05T04:00:00 Fiberworks: Tradition and Technique. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 5-November 11, 1977). title: Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation opening date: 2017-08-23T04:00:00 Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 23, 2017-August 27, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 19-April 11,1943).

Pre-Columbian Art: The Native Art of America Before the Conquest, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, (January 10-February 1,1953).

Ancient Arts of the Andes. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26-March 26, 1954).

Latin America, Then and Now. The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO (September 16-October 4,1959).

Town and Country (Window Display). The Halle Bros. Co. Cleveland, OH (January 29-February 8,1960). --- PROVENANCE Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1940 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1940 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The red dyes in this tunic likely come from madder root. digital description: wall description: The striking, large-scale figure shown on this tunic has an elaborate, monkey-like tail as well as head appendages that mark the creature as supernatural. This tunic, a relatively rare type, was made not on a loom but rather by working the yarns into loops with a needle. It is made entirely with camelid fiber, which can readily be dyed in a range of vivid colors. The fiber comes from one of the four camels (camelids) native to the Andes Mountains—the alpaca and llama, both domesticated, and the wild guanaco and vicuña. On the coast, it represents a prestige import. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "Exhibition of the "Art of the Americas"." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 9 (1945) page number: p. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141236 Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, Fla.), and Gordon F. Ekholm. Pre-Columbian Art, the Native Art of America Before the Conquest: Jan. 10-Feb. 1, 1953. Palm Beach: Society of the Four Arts, 1952. page number: Cat. No. 90 url: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and Wendell Clark Bennett. 32 Masterworks of Andean Art from the Exhibition Ancient Arts of the Andes. 1955. page number: p. 63, fig. 71 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 344 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n66 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 297 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n321 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 297 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n321 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 401 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n421 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.514/1940.514_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.514/1940.514_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.514/1940.514_full.tif