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Votive Checkerboard Tunic

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Camelid fiber, Inca
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Fletcher Fund Claudia Quentin Gift and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 2018
Title: Votive Checkerboard Tunic
Description:
Camelid fiber, Inca.

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