Textile
The formative Paracus culture flourished from 800-100 BCE on the south coast of Peru. Paracas weavers used locally-grown cotton to make textiles that were among the most technically advanced in the world at that time.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 235/1990/6
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Common Name
- textile
- Simple Name
- textile
- Production Town
- Paracas
- Production Country
- Peru
