Lambayeque Funerary attire

Room 5, Vitrine 49

Textile
Coast of northern Peru
Fusion Epoch (800 AD – 1300 AD)
ML600005, ML600006

• Material: Cotton warp thread. Dyed camelid fiber weft thread.
• Technique: Slit tapestry.
• Both the tunic (uncu) and the kilt are decorated with figures shown wearing fringed attire very similar to the garments they adorn.
• In the lower bands of both garments, an anthropomorphized wave is depicted as a gateway to the ocean and the underworld.
• Their large size would seem to indicate that these textiles were used to clothe a funerary bundle.