Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in Louis Clarke's handwriting: 'N.W. Peru, most probably Coastal'
Event Date 1932
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'A woven band with background of dark red, on which are a row of figures in various colours.'
Event Date 1932
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Gallery, Textile Case Side 11 until 1987.
Event Date 1987
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Jane Feltham (June 1991): "Single scaffold wefts placed every 2mm and design worked over this, much like our petit point, i.e. an embroidery on canvas, except this would have been done on the loom. South Coast. Early Middle Horizon."
Event Date 6/1991
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Jane Feltham: "Border of reinforced tapestry - paired cotton warps, Z spun S ply with wool wefts, same spin and ply. Single scaffold wefts placed every 2mm and design worked over this. Frontal, full-faced view of staff god of Tiahuanaco."
Event Date 6/1991
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1016 | Repack
Event Date 31/3/2015
Author: cft31

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular textile. Red with 8 panels running centrally. Each panel contains an anthropomorphic creature in varying colours.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Border of reinforced tapestry; woven of cotton warps with wool wefts. Red with eight panels running centrally. Each panel contains a frontal, full-faced view of staff god of Tiahuanaco.
Event Date 14/6/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Period field previously reads '?Late Intermediate Period; ?Chimu', however the most recent assessment (Jane Feltham, 1991) was for Early Middle Horizon and the field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 14/6/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
On 15 July 2021, Dr Paola Ricciardi and Dr Flavia Fiorillo of the Fitzwilliam Museum undertook fibre optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) analysis on this textile to determine the colour pigments, etc. The results are in the report (see Doc.507) and reveal:
Red background - insect-based dye (possibly cochineal prepared with a tin mordant), wool
Blue - indigo, wool
Green - indigo mixture, wool
Brown - unidentified colourant, linen or similar plant-based fibre
White - unidentified colourant, wool
Black - unidentified colourant, wool
Event Date 15/7/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn