20 juillet 2017
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset, « “F” for Feather: Pre Hispanic Feather Textiles from Peru, Lena Bjerregaard, Centre for Textile Research, SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) », Dressing the new world, ID : 10.58079/nwqp
Organic material remains for thousands of years, when there is no humidity, no light, no air. In the graves along the coast of Peru such conditions are present, and textiles, feathers, bone, straw etc. have been preserved for thousands of years. Feather Tunic, Pachacamac, 12-1500 AD. Ethnological Museum, Berlin, V A 60300. Photo: Lena Bjerregaard. Pre Columbian textiles are in the collections of almost all the ethnographic museums around the world. Among the most splendid of these textiles ...