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FIG. 8 (left): Balance.
Inka, Chincha Province,
Department of Ica, Peru.
AD 1400–1600.
Cotton, camelid fiber, wood.
H: 12.7 cm.
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Mrs.
A. Lyndon Bell, inv. 325:1986.
FIG. 9 (above):
Mummy mask.
Wari, Peru. AD 650–1000.
Camelid fiber, cotton, feathers.
H: 71.1 cm.
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred E. Goldman,
inv. 93:2000.
FIG. 10 (right): Coca bag.
Inka, Peru. AD 1450–1600.
Camelid fiber. 63.5 x 17.8 cm.
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe L. Kinker,
inv. 109:2001.
ANCIENT PERUVIAN TEXTILES
Textiles on loan from the Museum of Art and
Archaeology at the University of Missouri complement
the collection of the Saint Louis Art
Museum. These pieces include an Inka woman’s
mantle and a Wari tie-dye textile fragment, both
received as anomymous gifts, and a Recuay triple
weave band, a gift of Seth Merrin. The installation
also includes a touch panel displaying fibers
used by ancient and contemporary indigenous Peruvian
weavers. Ultimately, Balance and Opposition
in Ancient Peruvian Textiles provides a rare
opportunity both to gain a greater understanding
of the worldview of the vanished cultures of Peru
and to see the remarkable textiles produced by
these cultures that have found their way into the
collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles
Through November 25, 2018
Saint Louis Art Museum
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NOTES
1. Anne Paul, Paracas Ritual Attire: Symbols of Authority in
Ancient Peru (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990).
2. Christine Giuntini, “Techniques and Conservation of Peruvian
Feather Mosaics,” in Peruvian Featherworks, ed. Heidi King
(New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012): 100.
3. Heidi King, “The Wari Feathered Panels from Corral Redondo,
Churunga Valley: a Re-Examination of Context,” Ñawpa
Pacha, volume 33, number 1 (2013): 23–42.
4. Alfred Louis Kroeber and William Duncan Strong, The Uhle
Collections from Chincha (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1924): 38–39.
5. Maria Rostworowski, “Coastal fisherman, merchants,
and artisans in pre-Hispanic Peru.” In The Sea in the pre-
Columbian World, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (Washington, DC:
Dumbarton Oaks, 1977) 167–186.
6. Julia T. Burtenshaw-Zumstein, “The ‘Tembladera’ Figurines:
Ritual, Music, and Elite Identity in Formative Period North
Peru, Circa 1800–200 B.C.,” Ñawpa Pacha, volume 33,
number 2, pp. 119–148.
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