Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Fragment from the Topacu Waistband of a Tunic (Uncu)
Inca · 1550-1625
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sumner Healey (1871–1936), Sumner Healey Antiques, New York, by 1923 [incoming receipt R1383, Dec. 21, 1923, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Dec. 27, 1988–May 10, 1989.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Apr. 2–Nov. 4, 1992.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Aug. 23, 1993– Jan. 4, 1994.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, May 17, 2000–Feb. 7, 2001.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Gallery 126, Apr. 14– June 29, 2005.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136, Oct. 27, 2021-May 31, 2022.
Literature
Published references
- Joanne Pillsbury, "Inka Unku: Strategy and Design in Colonial Peru," Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 7 (2002): 90, fig. 29.
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Funerary staff
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