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Discover a painted tunic from the Peruvian Amazon.

Cotton tunic painted with vertical bands of geometric motifs.

This Shipibo-Conibo tunic is made from painted, plain-woven cotton. Dating to around 1900, it comes from Peru’s Ucayali region, possibly the area around Pucallpa in the Amazon basin.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago

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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kate S. Buckingham Endowment; public CC0 mirror at Artheon Museum.

Creator: Shipibo-Conibo Peru, Ucayali, Possibly Pucallpa region

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