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Painted Textile with Cayman


Chavín, Early Horizon
800 BCE - 700 BCE
90 cm x 63 cm (35 7/16 in. x 24 13/16 in.)
cotton
PC.B.544

Not on view


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Bibliography
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Boone, Elizabeth Hill (ED.) 1996 Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks; No. 1. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. vol. 1, p. 78-80, pl. 7.

Burger, Richard L. 1992 Chavín and the Origins of Andean Civilization. Thames and Hudson, London. p. 197, fig. 209.

Burger, Richard L. 1992 The Sacred Center of Chavín De Huantar. In The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Richard F. Townsend, ed., pp. 265-277. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. p. 276-277.

Callaway, Carol and Susan E. Bergh 1996 Form and Rhythm. Ancient Andean Textiles at Dumbarton Oaks. Hali. The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Arts (89):84-91.

Clifford, Paul A. 1984 Art of the Andes: Pre-Columbian Painted and Sculptured Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., p. 50.

Cordy-Collins, Alana 1979 Cotton and the Staff God: Analysis of an Ancient Chavin Textile. In The Julius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference, May 19th and 20th, 1973, Ann Rowe, Elizabeth P. Benson and Anne-Louise Schaffer, eds., pp. 51-60. The Textile Museum and Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., p. 51.

Cordy-Collins, Alana 1999 Telas Pintadas Chavín Del Valle De Ica, Costa Sur [Painted Chavín Textiles from Ica Valley, South Coast]. In Tejidos Milenarios Del Perú [Ancient Peruvian Textiles], José Antonio de Lavalle and Rosario de Lavalle de Cárdenas, eds., pp. 107-141. Colección Apu. Integra AFP, Lima.

Cordy-Collins, Alana n.d. The Architectural Evolution of Huaca 31, Manuscript in the possession of Dumbarton Oaks.

Dynner, Eugene 1972 Chinese Elements in Maya Art. Museum News 4 (1):5-11, 30.

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Kaulicke, Peter, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, María Kolp-Godoy, Patricia Landa, Óscar Loyola, Martha Palma, Elsa Tomasto, Cindy Vergel and Burkhard Vogt 2009 Implicancias De Un Área Funeraria Del Periodo Formativo Tardío En El Departamento De Ica. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 13 (El Periodo Formativo: enfoques y evidencias recientes). Cincuenta años de la Misión Arqueológica Japonesa y su vigencia: Part 2):289-322. fig. 12-13.

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Lavallée, Daniele 1986 L'amerique Du Sud: Origine Et Expansion De La Cultura Chavin. In Atlas De L'archéologie, Jean Gall, ed., pp. 364-365. Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris. p. 365.

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Exhibition History
"Gods With Fangs", Museum of Primitive Art, New York, NY, 2/21 - 5/6/1962 (catalogue # 64).

"The Ancient Americas: Art from Secret Landscapes", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 10/10/1992 - 1/3/1993; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2/14 - 4/18/1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 6/6 - 8/15/1993.

"75 Years/75 Objects", Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, 9/8/2015 - 5/22/2016.


Acquisition History
Purchased from John Wise, New York (dealer), by Michael Coe, 1961.

Gift to Dumbarton Oaks by Michael D. Coe, 1964.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.