id:			152258
accession number:	1985.139
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.139
updated:		2025-03-08 13:06:03.011000

Two Textile Fragment with Fanged Heads, 500–200 BCE. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Chavín style. Cotton: plain weave patterned by fiber-wrapped warps and supplementary wefts; overall: 112 x 61.2 cm (44 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.); mounted: 123.8 x 72.4 cm (48 3/4 x 28 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1985.139

title:				Two Textile Fragment with Fanged Heads
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creation date:			500–200 BCE
creation date earliest:		-500
creation date latest:		-200
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Chavín style
technique:	cotton: plain weave patterned by fiber-wrapped warps and supplementary wefts
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Pre-Columbian
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 112 x 61.2 cm (44 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.); Mounted: 123.8 x 72.4 cm (48 3/4 x 28 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Andean Gallery 107 Rotation
	opening date:   2001-11-21T05:00:00
	<i>Andean Gallery 107 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21, 2001-November 18, 2002).

	title:		Chavin - Arrival of the Gods in the Andes
	opening date:   2012-11-24T00:00:00
	<i>Chavin - Arrival of the Gods in the Andes</i>. Museum Rietberg, Zürich, CH 8002 Zürich, Switzerland (organizer) (November 24, 2012-March 10, 2013).

	title:		Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2016-08-30T04:00:00
	<i>Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 30, 2016-August 21, 2017).

	title:		Ancient Andean Textiles
	opening date:   2021-12-04T05:00:00
	<i>Ancient Andean Textiles</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022).

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 69, no. 168; Reproduced: p. 36
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 6
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n21

	Fux, Peter, and Walter Alva. <em>Chavín: Peru's Enigmatic Temple in the Andes</em>. Zurich: Scheidegger &amp; Spiess: Museum Rietberg, 2013.
	page number: 	pp. 276–277, Cat. No. 54
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