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Source Description
The Chancay (<strong><em>chan</em></strong><em>-kai</em>) people of Peru’s central coast created one of the ancient Andes’s best-known textile legacies through artistically elaborate men’s tunics and loin cloths, women’s dresses and headcloths, and shawl-like mantles. Two traits indicate that this tunic is a high-prestige garment: its labor-intensive tapestry-woven technique and its substantial use of alpaca fiber imported from the adjacent highlands.
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Document identity
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302272
label
Sleeved Tunic
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object
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302272
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object
title
Sleeved Tunic
description
The Chancay (<strong><em>chan</em></strong><em>-kai</em>) people of Peru’s central coast created one of the ancient Andes’s best-known textile legacies through artistically elaborate men’s tunics and loin cloths, women’s dresses and headcloths, and shawl-like mantles. Two traits indicate that this tunic is a high-prestige garment: its labor-intensive tapestry-woven technique and its substantial use of alpaca fiber imported from the adjacent highlands.
date
1460s–1532
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60746494
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.)
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Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people
accession
2017.193
Source extras
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Cotton, camelid fiber
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Sleeved Tunic, 1460s–1532. Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people. Cotton, camelid fiber; length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.193
collection
T - Pre-Columbian
citations
citation
Bergh, Susan E. “Acquisition Highlights: Pre-Columbian Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>58, no. 2 (March/April 2018): 8-9.
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Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9
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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 08:53:57.603000
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302272
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Textiles
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T - Pre-Columbian
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Cotton, camelid fiber
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