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Source Description
This band, remarkable for its intense color and spider-web sheerness, was created using an unusual technique known as discontinuous warp and weft. That is, none of the vertical or horizontal yarns are continuous from one side of the band to the other. Rather, they travel back and forth within their own color areas, linking at the edges with yarns in adjacent areas. This is a difficult feat when weaving on a loom and the creator likely used another approach, such as darning with a needle over a ground cloth that was then removed. The image repeated in each of the band’s rectangles is a head supported on two little feet.
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Document identity
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130762
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Band with Trophy Heads
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object
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1
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130762
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object
title
Band with Trophy Heads
description
This band, remarkable for its intense color and spider-web sheerness, was created using an unusual technique known as discontinuous warp and weft. That is, none of the vertical or horizontal yarns are continuous from one side of the band to the other. Rather, they travel back and forth within their own color areas, linking at the edges with yarns in adjacent areas. This is a difficult feat when weaving on a loom and the creator likely used another approach, such as darning with a needle over a ground cloth that was then removed. The image repeated in each of the band’s rectangles is a head supported on two little feet.
date
100 BCE–700 CE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80021730
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 180.7 x 21.6 cm (71 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.); Mounted: 193 x 30.5 cm (76 x 12 in.)
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Peru, South Coast, Nasca
accession
1953.475
Source extras
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interlocking warp and weft, single interlock: wool
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Band with Trophy Heads, 100 BCE–700 CE. Peru, South Coast, Nasca. Interlocking warp and weft, single interlock: wool; overall: 180.7 x 21.6 cm (71 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.); mounted: 193 x 30.5 cm (76 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise, 1953.475
collection
T - Pre-Columbian
didYouKnow
This band is made in with a weaving technique that is unique to the ancient Andes.
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Gift of John Wise
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2026-05-29 06:45:49.596000
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130762
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Textiles
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T - Pre-Columbian
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interlocking warp and weft, single interlock: wool
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photo
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