Unidentified artist
Coca Bag (Ch’uspa) Fragment with Birds, Animals, and Floral and Geometric Patterns (Fragmento de bolsa de coca [ch’uspa] con motivos animales, florales y geométricos)late 16th-early 17th century

Not on view

Flat-weave textile fragment with horizontal bands featuring stylized animals, scrolling vines, geometric diamonds, and rosette flowers in crimson, navy, gold, and ivory

Kilim textile fragment with flat-woven bands in red, navy, ivory, and gold; a wide central field filled with rosette motifs alternates with geometric border bands featuring hourglass and stepped diamond forms; fringe visible on left edge.

Artist or Maker: Unidentified artist
Title: Coca Bag (Ch’uspa) Fragment with Birds, Animals, and Floral and Geometric Patterns (Fragmento de bolsa de coca [ch’uspa] con motivos animales, florales y geométricos)
Place Made: Peru
Date Made: late 16th-early 17th century
Medium: Cotton and camelid-fiber tapestry weave
Dimensions: 35 1/8 × 14 3/8 in. (89.2 × 36.5 cm)
Credit Line: Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number: 70.3.2
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Curatorial Notes: This high-style colonial bag would have been folded in the center and sewn on the sides. Such bags were used to hold coca leaves, which were consumed to relieve symptoms caused by the high altitude of the Andes and offered in ceremonial contexts. Bags were also a frequent accessory of Inca coyas (queens). The exuberant design of this example—with tocapu (geometric motifs associated with the elite), animals, leaves, and feathers—suggests that it belonged to a noble Inca woman.

From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Elena Phipps in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 31, pp. 167–69)
Provenance: Private collection, Huancavelica, Peru, 1969; Arts of the Four Quarters Ltd., New York, 1970; LACMA, 1970.
Selected Bibliography: Katzew, Ilona, ed. Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.
Selected Exhibition History: Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. November 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. November 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024

Unidentified artist
Coca Bag (Ch’uspa) Fragment with Birds, Animals, and Floral and Geometric Patterns (Fragmento de bolsa de coca [ch’uspa] con motivos animales, florales y geométricos)late 16th-early 17th century

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Unidentified artist
Title: Coca Bag (Ch’uspa) Fragment with Birds, Animals, and Floral and Geometric Patterns (Fragmento de bolsa de coca [ch’uspa] con motivos animales, florales y geométricos)
Place Made: Peru
Date Made: late 16th-early 17th century
Medium: Cotton and camelid-fiber tapestry weave
Dimensions: 35 1/8 × 14 3/8 in. (89.2 × 36.5 cm)
Credit Line: Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number: 70.3.2
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Curatorial Notes: This high-style colonial bag would have been folded in the center and sewn on the sides. Such bags were used to hold coca leaves, which were consumed to relieve symptoms caused by the high altitude of the Andes and offered in ceremonial contexts. Bags were also a frequent accessory of Inca coyas (queens). The exuberant design of this example—with tocapu (geometric motifs associated with the elite), animals, leaves, and feathers—suggests that it belonged to a noble Inca woman.

From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Elena Phipps in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 31, pp. 167–69)
Provenance: Private collection, Huancavelica, Peru, 1969; Arts of the Four Quarters Ltd., New York, 1970; LACMA, 1970.
Selected Bibliography: Katzew, Ilona, ed. Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.
Selected Exhibition History: Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. November 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. November 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024

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