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Painted Textile with Supernatural


Chavín, Early Horizon
800 BCE - 700 BCE
27.4 cm x 78.5 cm (10 13/16 in. x 30 7/8 in.)
cotton
PC.B.545

Not on view


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Bibliography
2012 Museum News. Tribal Art: Quarterly Journal of the Art, Culture, and History of Traditional Peoples and New World Civilizations (66). p. 48, advertisement for exhibit at Museum Rietberg.

Benson, Elizabeth P. 1969 Supplement to the Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D. C., cat. 456.

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. 75-7, pl. 6.

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, fig. 19.

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.

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

Fux, Peter (ED.) 2013 Chavin: Peru's Enigmatic Temple in the Andes. Scheidegger & Spiess; Museum Rietberg, Zurich. p. 266-267, cat. 53, Mislabled in catalog as PC.B.580.

Fux, Peter (ED.) 2015 Chavín. 1st ed. Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima. p. 268-269, cat. 53, Mislabled in catalog as PC.B.580.

Menzel, Dorothy, John H. Rowe and Lawrence E. Dawson 1964 The Paracas Pottery of Ica: A Study in Style and Time. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 50. University of California Press, Berkeley. p. 38-39.

Rowe, John Howland 1962 Chavin Art: An Inquiry into Its Form and Meaning. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York. fig. 30.

Sawyer, Alan R. 1972 The Feline Motif in Paracas Art. In The Cult of the Feline, Elizabeth P. Benson, ed., pp. 91-115. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., fig. 8.

Wallace, Dwight 1991 A Technical and Iconographic Analysis of Carhua Painted Textiles. In Paracas Art and Architecture, Ann Paul, ed., pp. 61-109. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.





Exhibition History
"Gods With Fangs", Museum of Primitive Art, New York, NY, 2/21 - 5/6/1962 (catalogue # 65).

"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.

"Chavìn: Peru's Mysterious Temple in the Andes", Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, 11/23/12 – 3/10/13.


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.