Title: Cusco Peruvian Chullo or Gorra
Catalog No: ULV-JAEGR-2014-5763
Type: Textile; Hat; Cap; Chuku; Knit; Fiber Arts
Material: Alpaca wool.
Description: Mainly red with cream, green, purple, orange, yellow accents. The cap tapers to a point and has a single tassel. Two earflaps. The edging is scalloped/zigzagged. Near the brim of the cap are human figurines holding hands. They are dressed in traditional Peruvian style. Their shirts are purple; their pants are green.
Date: pre-1935
Dimensions: 9” W x 16” L; 19” circumference.
Artist: Unknown
Donor: Esther Funk Ethnographic Collection
Provenance: Purchased by Esther Funk c. 1933
Note: Attached card, “Gorra or cap common in Cusco altiplano.”
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