id:			128454
accession number:	1951.393
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.393
updated:		2025-08-07 21:26:05.888000

Half Tunic, 16th century. Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century. Interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool; overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1951.393

title:				Half Tunic
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creation date:			16th century
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1599
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creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century
technique:	interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Pre-Columbian
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Andean Gallery 107 Rotation
	opening date:   2002-11-21T05:00:00
	<i>Andean Gallery 107 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21, 2002-January 26, 2004).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 5, 1951-January 27, 1952); The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27- March 25, 1952). cat. no. 178.', 'opening_date': '1952-02-27T00:00:00'}

* {'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). Cat. no. 118, no', 'opening_date': '2010-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Latin America, Then and Now. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (September 16-October 4, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-09-16T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Gallery 107 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 20, 2002-January 26, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2002-11-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1951
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1951
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shepherd, Dorothy. "An Inca Poncho." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>42, no. 3 (March 1955): 48-50.
	page number: 	Mentioned p. 48; Reproduced: p. 49
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142025

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 350
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n67

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 299
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n323

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 299
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n323

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 403
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n423

	Pillsbury, Joanne. “Inka Unku: Strategy and Design in Colonial Peru.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 7 (2002): 68–103.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 87-88, fig. 22
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079720

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 340
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	Sidore, Micala, and Charissa Bremer-David.<em> The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries.</em> Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2020.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 165
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	Pillsbury, Joanne. “El Uncu Inca: Tradición y Transformación.”  <em>Arte Imperial Inca: Sus Orígenes y Transformaciones desde la Conquista a la Independencia, </em>Lima, Perú: Banco de Crédito del Perú (2020).
	page number: 	p. 126
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	Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951.
	page number: 	p. 60
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	Hamilton, Andrew James, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum. <em>The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece</em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 263, fig. 6.17
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