Cleveland Museum of Art

Sleeved Tunic

Date

1460s–1532

Medium

Cotton, camelid fiber

Culture

Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Chancay ( chan -kai ) 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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