Large Paracas Culture Painted Textile, circa 0-200 CE. Textile: 3'1'' x 5'1'' (94 x 155 cm). Woven in an open gauze-like cotton weave and decorated with a shellfish dye painted pattern of repeating reddish-brown stepped lozenges on a buff ground. Professionally mounted on a stretcher.

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