Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Paracas, Paracas culture 700 BCE - 200 CE or late period 300BCE - 100BCE. Large Peruvian textile embroidery panel of eighty zoomorphic figures in red, cream, and purple colors on plain wool ground. Paracas later cultures were known as Paracas Necropolis for their practices of cremation. This example probably used to wrap or lay over the deceased from the late period 300BCE-100BCE. Size 61" H x 18 3/4" W, textile 56" H x 14 1/2" W. For a similar example see Cleveland Museum of Art (Accession number: 1940.528).Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Paracas, Paracas culture 700 BCE - 200 CE or late period 300BCE - 100BCE. Large Peruvian textile embroidery panel of eighty zoomorphic figures in red, cream, and purple colors on plain wool ground. Paracas later cultures were known as Paracas Necropolis for their practices of cremation. This example probably used to wrap or lay over the deceased from the late period 300BCE-100BCE. Size 61" H x 18 3/4" W, textile 56" H x 14 1/2" W. For a similar example see Cleveland Museum of Art (Accession number: 1940.528).

Rettig Family Estate, Mr. Al Rettig, Documented on internal inventory of Rettig as early as circa 1980s.