id:			128454
accession number:	1951.393
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.393
updated:		2021-08-12 09:00:15.977000

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
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			16th century
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1599
current location:		
creditline:			The Norweb Collection
copyright:			

---

culture:	Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century
technique:	interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Pre-Columbian
type:		Textile
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

---

measurements: Overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

---

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).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* 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. <br>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 <br>Latin America, Then and Now. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (September 16-October 4, 1959).<br>Gallery 107 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 20, 2002-January 26, 2004).

---

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
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1951
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact: 
In Inca times, only the ruler and select nobles had the privilege of wearing <em>t'oqapu</em> tunics.

digital description: 


wall description: 
The "t'oqapu" waistband and the deep V-yoke were standard decorations of Inca tunics. However, the fantastic animals represented in the yoke and the floral motifs in the main field identify this tunic as dating after the Spanish Conquest in 1532.
---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	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

	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
	url:		

	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
	url:		

	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
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.393/1951.393_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.393/1951.393_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.393/1951.393_full.tif