DepartmentTextiles-Latin America
Urku
NameSkirt
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Date19th century
Place madeCalamarka, La Paz, Bolivia, South America
MediumAlpaca
Dimensions26 3/4 × 50 in. (68 × 127 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Laurie Adelson and Bruce Takami, A.2010.26.98
Object numberA.2010.26.98
DescriptionBlack alpaca gathered skirt decorated with red, brown and natural stripes. Large and small figurative stripes, containing stylized vegetation and birds, are above and below a larger figurative stripe in a wave-like pattern.
ca. 1960s
Artist unrecorded
c. 1960
Mid-19th century
mid 19th c., donor