1976.W.2062 Small dress (Peru, Inka)

This small textile served as a dress for either a young Inca (Inka) female or a figurine. The textile features wide cream and red bands with blue stripes, as well as red, blue, and yellow designs. These colors and zigzag designs with circles were common to elite Inca textiles. A larger dress of near identical composition was recovered from the south-central coast site of Pachacamac. Inca dresses were wrapped around the body and pinned over both shoulders, while mantles were wrapped around the shoulders and pinned together over the chest. Both types were likely worn with the stripes set horizontal to the individual.

Kimberly L. Jones, PhD, Inca: Conquests of the Andes / Los Incas y las conquistas de los Andes, Label text, 2015.

Inka (Inca): AAT: 300017326

Inca horizon: AAT: 300017352

Inca Empire: TGN: 6002741

Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056

textiles (visual works): AAT: 300014063

textile materials: AAT: 300231565

camelidae (camelid) fiber: AAT: 300310434

weaving: AAT: 300053642

warp: AAT: 300227930

weft: AAT: 300227934

Late Horizon Period: AAT: 300017332

dresses (garments): AAT: 300046159

female: AAT: 300189557

figurine: AAT: 300047455

miniature (size): AAT: 300121995

red (color): AAT: 300126225

cream (color): AAT: 300266242

blue (color): AAT: 300129361

yellow (color): AAT: 300127794

brown (color): AAT: 300127490

bands (decorative): DMA

stripes: AAT: 300010230

zigzags (geometric patterns): AAT: 300165028

circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627

Pachacamac: AAT: 300017302

Pachacamac (deserted settlement): TGN: 7032402

pinning (fastening, assembling): AAT: 300053018

mantles (lliclla / outerwear): AAT: 300212298

horizontality (form and composition concepts): AAT: 300065463

Until 1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]

From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Nora and John Wise Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the Eugene McDermott Family, Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison [1], [2]

[1] The main source for this provenance is existing information in TMS. Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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