Shirt fragment

Name/Title

Shirt fragment

Entry/Object ID

1984.14.17

Description

Fiber, alpaca. Large shirt fragment, Inca style, woven in warp face plain weave with discontinuous warps in step design. Colors include red, gold, brown, white, and yellow. Although it appears to be an entire tunic with a cut slit, it is actually only the right half of the original garment.

Collection

May Collection

Acquisition

Accession

1984.14

Source or Donor

Mike D. May, David C. May

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Mike D. and David C. May

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Fragment

Nomenclature Category

Category 10: Unclassifiable Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Notes

Former Purdue Galleries number

Dimensions

Height

30-5/16 in

Width

55-1/8 in

Material

Alpaca

Color

Red, Brown, Yellow, Gold, Tan

Exhibition

Shrouds, Masks, And The Floating World: Selections From The Permanent Collection (2009)