Art Institute of Chicago

Loincloth Panel

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Date: 1000-1476
Medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave; slit tapestry weave
Culture: Peru
Department: Textiles
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 85552

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Credit line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Provenance: Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.