Some Peruvian Textile Motives Based on Life Forms
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An article by John Goldsmith Phillips on motifs in Peruvian textiles drawn from life forms: man, puma, bird and fish. It discusses conventionalization of the motifs and the animal cult, and notes the Tiahuanaco tradition. It closes with descriptions of ten textiles, mostly tapestry-woven wool, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, grouped as more naturalistic or more conventionalized. The plates are photographs of textile details, and the last page also shows an unrelated sampler.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1932
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 14
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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