{"id":1090,"date":"2010-10-05T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2010-10-05T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:56:55","slug":"antique-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Antique Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"

These and some other interesting Andean artifacts from Precolumbian times are on display here in Montevideo\u00a0at MAPI – the museum of precolumbian and indigenous art,\u00a0in the Cuidad Vieja \/ Old City. Handily located\u00a0near the port where cruise ships and the buquebus ferry come in,\u00a0it’s well worth a visit if you happen to be passing through, just two short blocks up and one block over from the Mercado del Puerto, which is a marvellous\u00a0place to enjoy lunch amid\u00a0the lively crowds and music, browse and perhaps shop,\u00a0before visiting local galleries.\u00a0 A visitor can easily spend a whole day in this interesting part of the old city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This woven fabric, of cotton and alpaca wool, is from the Peruvian Wari culture dating between 600-1000AD.\u00a0 I just know if had been able to reach inside the glass case and touch it, it would have been sooo soft… you could tell just looking at it.\u00a0 Each motif+hole was about 1″sq.<\/p>\n

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This knitted\u00a0cotton fragment of two joined pieces, comes from the same time and area.<\/p>\n

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In a case on its own beside the case containing the other pieces, was this fascinating 4-cornered cap\/gorro, missing one of its horn-like trims.\u00a0 It was made of cotton and alpaca wool, with a fine geometric design worked in a tufted or velvet like texture.\u00a0 I felt from the back appearance of the loose fagment lying beside the cap that it was embroidered, with something like velvet stitch – or maybe the velvet texture was woven in – either is possible, and I am only going by what\u00a0 I saw without being able to touch.\u00a0 I recall seeing a similar piece in a museum in Lima, I think it was, where it was made clear this kind of hat was worn\u00a0by a very\u00a0high status\u00a0noble.\u00a0 From the same area and era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These and some other interesting Andean artifacts from Precolumbian times are on display here in Montevideo\u00a0at MAPI – the museum of precolumbian and indigenous art,\u00a0in the Cuidad Vieja \/ Old City. Handily located\u00a0near the port where cruise ships and the buquebus ferry come in,\u00a0it’s well worth a visit if you happen to be passing through, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-hA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}