Análisis técnico y aproximación a los formatos de las piezas textiles de la momia 298

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of 42 textiles specimens found in Wari Kayan cemetery's bundle 298, unwrapped at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru's textile laboratory in 2005. Such specimens encompass seven types, mostly consisting of mantles, wrapping clotbs and parts of headdresses. The objects' conservation status—ranging from regular to bad—complicated the identification of many specimens and their format. Because of this, these objects” shapes and distribution within the bundle has been proposed after a graphic reconstruction.