DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Urku

NameSkirt

Artist Artist Not Recorded

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

Collections

Latin America

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.

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