
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Fragment
Chancay · 750–1100
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Durham, NC, Woman's College Library of Duke University, Art and Artifacts of Pre-Columbian Peru, Dec. 17, 1964-Jan. 20, 1965.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Sept.11-Nov. 11, 1986.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Jan. 12- Feb. 17, 1987.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian, May 5-Aug. 15, 2003.
Literature
Published references
- Adele Cahlander and Suzanne Baizerman, Double Woven Treasures from Old Peru (Dos Tejedoras, 1985), p. 34, fig. 4-13.
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