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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Fragment With Curled-Tail Cats
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Fragment With Curled-Tail Cats

Date1100-1460
MediumWool | Cotton | tapestry weave
DimensionsOverall: 10 x 11 in. (25.4 x 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsLatin American
Credit LineGift of Dr. Lillian Malcove
Object number58.50.17
Terms
  • Cats
  • Black
  • Blue
  • White
  • Yellow
  • Tan
  • Pink
  • Ica
  • South Coast
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DescriptionFragment of tapestry woven wool weft cotton warp. Tapestry showing bands of hunch-backed, curled-tail cats looking left with approximately the same coloring running diagonally, black & blue, white & black, yellow & tan, yellow & pink, and yellow & white, on a red ground. A dot over a mound separates most of the cats. Selvage on left, cut on the other three edges. Top edge turned over whipped. UV plexiglass covering, 6/1980.

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