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Man's Tunic1470-1532

Not on view
Woven textile tunic with a solid brick-red upper section in a stepped geometric shape, below which a large-scale checkerboard pattern alternates chocolate-brown and cream squares
Woven textile with bold geometric blocks in deep red, dark brown-black, and undyed natural cream, arranged in a large-scale checkerboard pattern with visible warp-faced weave texture.
Woven textile with large checkerboard pattern in deep red, dark brown, and cream, with visible weft texture and slightly irregular block edges.

Unknown, Man's Tunic, 1470-1532, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Man's Tunic
Culture
Inka
Place Made
Peru
Date Made
1470-1532
Medium
Camelid fiber and cotton tapestry weave
Dimensions
34 3/8 × 31 1/4 in. (87.31 × 79.38 cm)
Credit Line
Costume Council Fund
Accession Number
M.76.45.8
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
  • Herring, Adam. Art and Vision in the Inca Empire: Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. November 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012

Related Exhibitions

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Now on View: Graziella Laffi and Modern Peruvian Silver
Now on View: Graziella Laffi and Modern Peruvian Silver
  • February 25, 2015
  • Ilona Katzew, Curator and Department Head, Latin American Art and Ellen Dooley, Assistant Curator, Latin American Art
Design Inspiration
Design Inspiration
  • December 26, 2013