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Sleeved Tunic
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The Chancay ( chan -kai ) people of Peru’s central coast created one of the ancient Andes’s best-known textile legacies through artistically elaborate men’s tunics and loin cloths, women’s dresses and headcloths, and shawl-like mantles. Two traits indicate that this tunic is a high-prestige garment: its labor-intensive tapestry-woven technique and its substantial use of alpaca fiber imported from the adjacent highlands.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSleeved Tunic, 1460s–1532. Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people. Cotton, camelid fiber; length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.193
