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A work made of cotton and silk floss; plain weave; with supplementary brocading and patterning wefts; three panels joined.

Blouse (Huipil), 1900/50

Maya

A work made of cotton, open plain weave; appliquéd with small panels of cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single interlocking tapestry weave, and cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave medallions; edged in plain weave with extended weft fringe; cotton cord, embroidered with wool (camelid) in cross-knit loop stitches neck edging; cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single interlocking tapestry weave with eccentric and interlaced outlining wefts bottom band.

Tunic, 1000/1476

Lambayeque

A work made of contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. cotton and wool, variety of weaves' embroidered with wool in satin and back stitches; cotton wrapped twigs.

Dolls, 1950/84, with textile fragments from A.D. 1000/1476

Chancay

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Minitature Tray Depicting Suche Fish and Peppers, 1450–1532

Inca

A work made of stone.

Ritual Mask, 300–750 CE

Teotihuacan

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Figure Carried in a Litter, 600–950

Veracruz, Classic

A work made of cotton and silk; plain weave; with supplementary patterning warps..

Ayate, 1900/40

Otomí

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Dancing Figure Wearing Animal Headdress and Ornate Costume, 600–900

Veracruz, Classic

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Miniature Portrait Jar of a Human Head with Face Painting, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of wool, stripes of plain weave and three-color complementary warp weave; joined with darning stitches; bottom edged with tape of three-color complementary warp weave; plain weave with extended supplementary patterning weft fringe.

Poncho, 1850/1900

Aymara

A work made of colored crayons and graphite with smudging on ivory wove paper.

The Sun's Anxiety After the Passage of Two Personages, 1937

Matta

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Portrait Head, 250–550 CE

Remojadas

A work made of color crayon and graphite on paper.

Untitled, 1937

Matta

A work made of graphite, with smudging and erasing, and colored crayons on cream wove paper.

Medraumonde, 1945/46

Matta

A work made of lithograph in black on pink wove paper.

"La risa del pueblo": Con su música a otra parte ("The Laughter of the People": Take Your Music Somewhere Else), 1939

José Chávez Morado

A work made of wool and cotton, complementary warp; warp fringe..

Belt (Chumpi or Wak’a), Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Quechua

A work made of wool and cotton, warp-faced plain weave embroidered with cross stitches; attached crochet edging and borders terminating in knotted cut fringe.

Ceremonial Scarf (bufando or ufanta), 1850/1900

Aymara

A work made of cotton and acrylic; plain weve with supplementary brocading wefts; plied warp and knotted fringe.

Man's Headcloth (Tzute), 1900/84

Maya

A work made of iron.

Pair of Rowel Spurs, 18th/19th century

A work made of lithograph on white wove paper.

Crime by Cuevas, 1968

José Luis Cuevas

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