Work Basket
Chancay
1000–1476
- Medium
- Reed, dyed split reed, and plied cotton
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 11.4 × 14 cm (12 × 4 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- sewing baskets
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
super/naturalaccessories (object genre)sewing basketsbasketryTextilechancay
About
In central and southern coastal Peru, archaeologists have unearthed a variety of weaving tools and work baskets. These are often found in women’s burials, which suggests that spinning yarn and weaving textiles were the domain of women. This basket was probably made for a weaver to hold tools used in making textiles, such as needle cases, needles, spindles, and combs.
