id: 128454
accession number: 1951.393
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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
Andean Gallery 107 Rotation. 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." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 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. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. 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.” Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 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. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 340
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Sidore, Micala, and Charissa Bremer-David. The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 165
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Pillsbury, Joanne. “El Uncu Inca: Tradición y Transformación.” Arte Imperial Inca: Sus Orígenes y Transformaciones desde la Conquista a la Independencia, 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. The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 263, fig. 6.17
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IMAGES
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