id:			164420
accession number:	2005.5.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.5.1
updated:		2023-03-20 10:12:16.784000

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
	<i>Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation</i>. 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
	<i>Ancient Andean Textiles (Gallery 232 rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 9, 2022-December 3, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>The Ancient Americas- Art From Sacred Landscapes</em>, 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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fun fact:
The Chimú forged an empire that thrived until the 1460s, when the Inka incorporated it into their own imperial domain.

digital description:
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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Rowe, Ann Pollard, and John P. O'Neill. Costumes &amp; featherwork of the Lords of Chimor: textiles from Peru's north coast. 1984.
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IMAGES

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