Tassel

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Tassel

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Date
500-900
Medium
Wool (camelid), oblique interlinked and interlaced warp (sprang); cross-knit looping over folded unworked warps; sides joined with wool (camelid) in overcast stitch
Culture
Peru
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
85541

Woven tassels were worn in pairs, attached to a long cord that wrapped around a person’s head, with one tassel falling to each side. Several dozen of these large and elaborately patterned tassels are known, all with the same shape and structure. The tassels were made via a complex technique that produced multiple interconnected layers and mirror-image symmetry. The complexity of Nazca textiles like these far exceeds functional or representational requirements, suggesting that there is symbolic meaning embedded in the structure itself.

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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.

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Object type
AAT300014063

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