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Bag, 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
Length: 81 cm
Width: 89 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton, Camelid wool Cord, woven, worked, Embroidery
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
M 34842

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Klinkenbergh; 4440
  • Production
    when
    15th - 16th century AD.
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Peru
Provenance
According to the collector, the bag comes from the Ica region on Peru's south coast.

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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