id: 119675
accession number: 1940.514
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.514
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Tunic, 400–200 BCE. 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
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creation date: 400–200 BCE
creation date earliest: -400
creation date latest: -200
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creditline: The Norweb Collection
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culture: Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site?, Paracas people
technique: looped camelid fiber
department: Textiles
collection: T - Pre-Columbian
type: Textile
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measurements: Average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Art of the Americas
opening date: 1943-03-19T04:00:00
Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-April 11, 1943).
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).
title: Ancient Andean Textiles
opening date: 2023-12-08T05:00:00
Ancient Andean Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 2023-December 8, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 19-April 11,1943).', 'opening_date': '1943-03-19T04:00:00Z'}
* {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1953-01-10T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Ancient Arts of the Andes. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26-March 26, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-01-26T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Latin America, Then and Now. The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO (September 16-October 4,1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-09-16T04:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Town and Country (Window Display). The Halle Bros. Co. Cleveland, OH (January 29-February 8,1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-01-29T05:00:00Z'}
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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
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1940
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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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
"New in the Galleries." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 6 (November/December 2017): Back cover.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover.
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"Permanent Collection Installations." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 65, no. 2 (June/July/August 2024): 5-7.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 15.
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IMAGES
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