New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Fragment With Step Pattern

Artist Unknown

Date1000-1460

MediumCotton

DimensionsOverall: 17 1/4 x 15 in. (43.8 x 38.1 cm)

ClassificationsLatin American

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Virginia Morris Pollak

Object number55.53.44

Terms

Natural
Yellow
Blue
Red
Chancay

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Not on view

DescriptionTextile fragment of natural cotton ground with alpaca brocaded design in 3 shades of yellow and blue-red of interlocking stairs and walls outlined vertically with two warp threads. UV plexiglass covering, 6/1980. In mounting, "mended" at edges.