Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
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Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalBag, wide, with long tassels
The bag is worked in the Inca colours, the motifs in the patterned areas are stylised birds. They are possibly meant to represent the Guanay cormorant, whose excrement was and still is an important fertilizer for the fields in the Andes. It was widely traded and was very valuable. Such an elaborately woven bag was certainly not a simple transport container, but was used for festive or ritual occasions. It may also have belonged to a high-ranking member of Inca society.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Inka-Kultur
- Object type
- Tasche
- Dimensions
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Length: 81 cm
Width: 89 cm - Material/Technique
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Cotton, Camelid wool
Cord, woven, worked, Embroidery
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- M 34842
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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15th - 16th century AD.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Peru
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Change of physical control
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when
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2001
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- Provenance
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According to the collector, the bag comes from the Ica region on Peru's south coast.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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