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Source Description
The "t'oqapu" waistband and the deep V-yoke were standard decorations of Inca tunics. However, the fantastic animals represented in the yoke and the floral motifs in the main field identify this tunic as dating after the Spanish Conquest in 1532.
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Document identity
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128454
label
Half Tunic
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128454
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object
title
Half Tunic
description
The "t'oqapu" waistband and the deep V-yoke were standard decorations of Inca tunics. However, the fantastic animals represented in the yoke and the floral motifs in the main field identify this tunic as dating after the Spanish Conquest in 1532.
date
16th century
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60747794
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.)
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Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century
accession
1951.393
Source extras
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interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool
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Half Tunic, 16th century. Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century. Interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool; overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1951.393
collection
T - Pre-Columbian
didYouKnow
In Inca times, only the ruler and select nobles had the privilege of wearing <em>t'oqapu</em> tunics.
citations
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy. "An Inca Poncho." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>42, no. 3 (March 1955): 48-50.
page_number
Mentioned p. 48; Reproduced: p. 49
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 350
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 299
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 299
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 403
citation
Pillsbury, Joanne. “Inka Unku: Strategy and Design in Colonial Peru.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 7 (2002): 68–103.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 87-88, fig. 22
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. 340
citation
Sidore, Micala, and Charissa Bremer-David.<em> The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries.</em> Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2020.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 165
citation
Pillsbury, Joanne. “El Uncu Inca: Tradición y Transformación.” <em>Arte Imperial Inca: Sus Orígenes y Transformaciones desde la Conquista a la Independencia, </em>Lima, Perú: Banco de Crédito del Perú (2020).
page_number
p. 126
citation
Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951.
page_number
p. 60
citation
Hamilton, Andrew James, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum. <em>The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece</em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 263, fig. 6.17
creditline
The Norweb Collection
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2026-05-29 06:37:46.054000
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128454
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Textiles
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T - Pre-Columbian
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interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool
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