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Lambayeque

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1000/1476
Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave
76 × 49.2 cm (29.9 × 19.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Lambayeque textiles typically consist of multiple weavings joined together to create larger panels and garments. This panel feature repeating rows of designs, with motifs including a human figure and a large white bird, both wearing crescent headdresses. With this pairing of human and animal figures, the textile may allude to a legend of an ancestral lord who escaped death by sprouting wings and flying away.

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