**Originally Listed At $200**

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000 to 1300 CE; Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A lovely ensemble of three textile panel fragments formed from tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers from ancient Peru. First is a yellow Chancay strip with one partial and ten full red birds. Second is a yellow Chimu panel with a fringed border as well as eight birds in hues of brown, red, pink, white, and yellow. Last is another Chimu panel corner with a red stepped design, four stylized birds, and a diagonal register of abstract avian figures. Size of largest (Chimu yellow): 2.5" W x 6" H (6.4 cm x 15.2 cm).

Provenance: private Allison collection, Kent, Washington, USA, inherited in the mid-1970s

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All items are fragments from larger textile items. Each item has light fraying to some interior and peripheral threads, light fading to original coloration, and small areas of tearing.