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A New Type of Ancient Peruvian Shirt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

A. H. Gayton
A. H. Gayton*
Affiliation:
University of CaliforniaDepartment of Decorative ArtBerkeley, Calif
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The Shirt which is the subject of this article is of importance for several reasons: it exemplifies a revolutionary construction principle in old Peruvian dress, indicates that the new style was one still based on the weaver's art, and gives significance to textile fragments which heretofore have been anomalous.

The specimen (Fig. 76) is the property of Edwin Ferdon of the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, who has kindly given permission for a descriptive and analytical article concerning it. In the spring of 1953 the writer examined the specimen, then on loan to the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. I wish to thank Frank Hibben, Curator of the Department's collections, for making this textile available for study, and Joseph Allen for photographing it. The shirt bears the loan number UNM F 15-93. My colleague, John Rowe, has kindly assisted with advice on the dating given herein.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , January 1955 , pp. 263 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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