https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/78598/fullTunic panelca. 1000–1350[]Cotton, or cotton and camelid woolThis large slit-woven Lambayeque tapestry panel has been cut apart from a larger garment, probably a tunic. The garment was woven in sections and later stitched together; the bottom and the left edge as one faces the textile appear to be edges of the original garment. There are four large images of figures holding objects in each hand remaining on this panel; they are bordered top and bottom by rows of stylized feline faces. Each row of cat faces contains 5 tan cats and one red cat, for a total of six cats per row. The position of the red cat varies from place to place within the textile, and is not symmetrical. Between the rows of feline faces are a series of pyramidal stepped figures with anthropomorphic heads wearing headdresses appearing to be smaller versions of those worn by the larger anthropomorphic images. These stepped figures may represent mummy bundles, which are often roughly pyramidal in shape and are sometimes surmounted by masks and headpieces. The larger anthropomorphic figures may represent Naymlap, the mythical founder of the Sican culture in Lambayeque. Naymlap is said to have arrived over the sea with his wife and 40 retainers. These Naymlap figures are depicted in the manner of "staff god" images associated with agricultural fertility; the figures hold elaborate objects in both hands which are surrounded by many other small objects. The figures wear elaborate tunics woven with horizontal red and white stripes set in a stepped-V on the yoke, with blue squares below on a tan ground for the body of the tunic. The figures also wear crescent-shaped headdresses from which two tiers of large, cascading plumes emerge. Large, crescent-shaped headdresses of this sort are common on north coast textiles of this period; Lambayeque textiles share many similarities with later Chimu textiles. A nearly identical tunic shirt is held in the Museo Precolombino in Santiago, Chile. See page 76 in Berenguer R., Jose (2000): Awakhuni: Tejiendo la Historia Andina. Museo Precolombino: Santiago. com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@68https://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/38137/rdf