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Source 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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169189
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Tunic
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169189
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Tunic
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.
date
1100–1532
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80076132
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 57.2 x 151.1 cm (22 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.)
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Peru, Chimú or Chimú-Inka, 12th-16th century
accession
2011.111.1
Source extras
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white cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading
tombstone
Tunic, 1100–1532. Peru, Chimú or Chimú-Inka, 12th-16th century. White cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading; overall: 57.2 x 151.1 cm (22 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2011.111.1
collection
T - Pre-Columbian
didYouKnow
The Chimú forged an empire that thrived until the 1460s, when the Inka incorporated it into their own imperial domain.
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 338-339
citation
"Permanent Collection Installations.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>63, no. 3 (2023): 12-13.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 12
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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 08:41:36.464000
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169189
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Textiles
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T - Pre-Columbian
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white cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading
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