DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Chumbis

NameBelts

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Date1959

Place madeHuancayo Province, Junín, Peru, South America

MediumSheep wool, cotton

Dimensions29 15/16 × 3 3/8 in. (76 × 8.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.53.63X

Object numberA.1979.53.63X

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionPair of multicolored, brightly colored belts. One has orange pattern of geometric and people over narrow bands of white, black, green and pink with spiral edges. The other has train pink over white, yellow and green. 1959 date woven into two patterns. Woven on backstrap loom, warp fringe braided at one end, other straight.