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Description
12" (30 cm.) l. 5" h. The woven woolen textile in rich dark colors appears as 12 doll-like figures
with extended hair; the fragment was designed as a border fringe,the figure hanging upside-
down so the cascading hair created the fringe effect. Excellent condition. Peru,early Nasca
style,c. 50 BC - AD 200. During the early 1900s,Jurgen Prader's great-grandfather physician
traveled and worked in Peru,and carried this textile back to Switzerland upon his return,little
realizing that a century later his family would open a doll museum. When the Spielzeugmuseum
opened,the Prader's decided to display the doll-like piece as "the oldest doll in their museum".
Remarkably fine state of preservation,lightly-baste-stitched to linen backing.