Textile Fragment

c. 50–650 CE Overall: 40 x 25.4 cm (15 3/4 x 10 in.); Mounted: 60.6 x 41.6 cm (23 7/8 x 16 3/8 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.2.1

This fragment, one of several in the collection, is a rare survivor of catastrophic rains that destroyed much of the Moche textile legacy and may have helped to bring about the decline of Moche culture. It depicts a serpent and a snail beneath a hovering raptorial bird—perhaps...

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