Mochica-Huari Textile

Title: Mochica-Huari Textile
Description: Mochica-Huari brocade, Simple plain fabric decorated with additional wefts. This textile cloth represents characters with their heads in profile holding two staves, canes that leaders use as symbols of power. Probably from the Central Coast of Peru.
Identifier: ML600067_SF1
Type: Textile fabrics, Ancient
Creator: Unknown, Mochica-Huari culture
Date: Fusion Epoch (800-1300 AD)
Subject: Mochica textile fabrics; Mochica artists; Huari textile fabrics; Textile fabrics, Ancient
Medium: Cotton thread in plain fabric. Decoration employing dyed camelid fibers
Coverage: Central Coast of Peru; Huarmey
Source: Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera; https://www.museolarco.org/exposicion/exposicion-permanente/exposicion-en-linea/tejidos-del-antiguo-peru/textil-mochica-huari/
Rights: Copyright © 2018 Museo Larco

Pre-Columbian Textiles (Peru)