id: 164420
accession number: 2005.5.1
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Mantle or Hanging, 1480–1635 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability). Peru, North Coast, Chimú style, 1200-1460s. Cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 3 or 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots; overall: 162.5 x 272 cm (64 x 107 1/16 in.); mounted: 177.8 x 287 cm (70 x 113 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2005.5.1
title: Mantle or Hanging
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creation date: 1480–1635 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability)
creation date earliest: 1480
creation date latest: 1635
current location: 232 Andean
creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture: Peru, North Coast, Chimú style, 1200-1460s
technique: cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 3 or 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots
department: Textiles
collection: T - Pre-Columbian
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 162.5 x 272 cm (64 x 107 1/16 in.); Mounted: 177.8 x 287 cm (70 x 113 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation
opening date: 2014-08-27T04:00:00
Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27, 2014-July 27, 2015).
title: Ancient Andean Textiles (Gallery 232 rotation)
opening date: 2022-12-09T05:00:00
Ancient Andean Textiles (Gallery 232 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 9, 2022-December 3, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* The Ancient Americas- Art From Sacred Landscapes, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, (October 10, 1992- January 3, 1993); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, (February- April 18, 1993); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, (June 6- August 15, 1993).
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PROVENANCE
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The Chimú forged an empire that thrived until the 1460s, when the Inka incorporated it into their own imperial domain.
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This garment embodies an important principle of the Chimú textile aesthetic: a love of combining different textures, some dense and sculptural and others so open and airy they are nearly invisible. (The hand-spun yarns are only .1 to .2 millimeters in diameter.) It also elegantly articulates the simplified, spare visual vocabulary that the Chimú favored, here geometric motifs.
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CITATIONS
Rowe, Ann Pollard, and John P. O'Neill. Costumes & featherwork of the Lords of Chimor: textiles from Peru's north coast. 1984.
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