A Group of Peruvian Textile Fragments

Circa 1st-16th Century A.D.

Largest fragment 21 x 17 3/4 inches (53.34 x 45.09 cm).

Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

The Eliza M. (1864-1930) and Sarah L. Niblack (1868-1933) Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Gifted to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana (now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields), 1933.

[Acc. nos. 33.1789, 33.1790, 33.1793, 33.1796A-B, 33.1805A-B, 33.1807A-B, 33.1808, 33.1809, 33.1801, 33.1802, 33.1804, 33.1806, 33.1795, 33.1797, 33.1798, 33.1799, 33.1791, 33.1792, 33.1788]

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Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic Art

A Group of Peruvian Textile Fragments

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