迷你连衣裙 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	迷你连衣裙
品名（英）	Miniature Dress
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.639
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1100 - 公元 1300
创作地区	秘鲁（Peru）
分类	纺织品羽毛制品（Textiles-Featherwork）
尺寸	高 8 3/4 x . 8 3/8 英寸 (22.2 x 21.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	多彩的鸟羽毛在古代秘鲁是非常珍贵的物品，覆盖着它们的纺织品是前柱世界最壮观和最奢华的作品之一。据报道，在秘鲁南部下伊卡山谷的Ullujaya拍卖会上发现了一大批类似的服装，这件迷你羽毛裙就是其中之一。这些小模型的尺寸是全尺寸服装的四分之一到三分之一。由于它们的制造遵循用于全尺寸男女服装的惯例，因此技术、结构和图案特征允许区分女装和男装。如图所示，小组中的女性礼服正面有棋盘格图案。头部和手臂的水平开口沿着顶部的接缝。然而，由于开口是缝合在一起的，所以这些迷你裙并不是真正的衣服，可以放在有手臂的雕像上。这种微型服装在古代安第斯文化中的使用尚不清楚；它们可能是祈愿语境中的象征性替代羽毛织物由专家制造。羽毛系在长长的细绳上，细绳又缝在普通棉布上。通常修剪羽毛尖端以创建清晰的轮廓，如本例所示。
介绍（英）	Colorful bird feathers were highly prized items in ancient Peru and textiles covered with them are among the most spectacular and luxurious works made in the Precolumbian world. This miniature feathered dress is one of a large group of similar garments reportedly found in an offering at Ullujaya in the lower Ica Valley in southern Peru. The miniatures are one-fourth to one-third the size of full-sized garments. Since their manufacture follows the conventions used for full-sized male and female garments, technical, constructional, and patterning features allow the distinction between women's dresses or men's tunics to be seen. The women's dresses in the group have a checkerboard design on the front, as seen here. The horizontal openings for head and arms are along the seam at the top. However, since the openings are sewn closed, the miniature dresses were not actual garments that could have been put on statues with arms. The use of such miniature garments in ancient Andean cultures is unclear; they may have been symbolic substitutions in votive contexts. Feathered textiles were made by specialists. The feathers were tied onto long strings, which in turn were sewn to the plain cotton cloth. The feather tips are often clipped to create sharp outlines, as on this example.