Feathered Tunic

1. Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Museum of Modern Art, NY, Ancient Arts of the Andes, Jan. 25-Mar. 21, 1954; travelled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas rotation, Aug. 30 – Dec. 27, 1988.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas rotation, Aug. 25, 1989 – .
• Art Institute of Chicago, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the Nineteenth Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas rotation, Oct. 18, 1991 – Apr. 2, 1992.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 190; travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4-Apr. 18, 1993, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6-Aug. 15, 1993 (Chicago only).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas rotation, Jan.1 – May 10, 1994.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Oct. 10, 1997-Jan. 29, 1998.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Feb. 7-July 5, 2001.
• Art Institute of Chicago, African and Amerindian Galleries, Apr. 17-Sept. 14, 2015.

• Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichete des Altan Peru (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), 57, pl. XII.
• Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth, 1924), 57, pl. XII.
• Pál Keleman, Medieval American Art. (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1943), vol. II, pl. 290a.
• Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru, 2nd ed. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1954), 25, pl. 51.
• Wendell C. Bennett, Ancient Arts of the Andes, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1954), fig. 120.
• Erwin O. Christensen, Primitive Art (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955), 231, fig. 253.
• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), back cover (ill.).
• Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 13 and 17, pl. 6.
• Michel Thomas, Christine Mainguy, and Sophie Pommier, Textile Art (Skira and Rizzoli, 1985), 20 (ill.).
• Johan Reinhard, “Interpreting the Nazca Lines,” in The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat. ed. Richard F. Townsend (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 301, fig. 19.
• Ann Pollard Rowe, "Provincial Inca Tunics of the South Coast of Peru," The Textile Museum Journal 31 (1992), 11-13.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 224 (ill.).

Feathered Tunic

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ornamental disk

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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