Tunics

Tunics on Heraldic Art.


Tunic (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.144). Peru - 600-1000 

Tunic (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.1). Peru - 600-1000

Doll tunic (Museum für Byzantinische Kunst 9987). Egypt - 7th-9th C.

Man's embroidered tunic (Ashmolean EA1998.210). Egypt - 11th C.

Bottom border section of a tunic (Brooklyn Museum 2004.53.14). Peru - 1000-1476

Miniature fringed tunic (Brooklyn Museum 2004.53.53). 1000-1500

Latticework tunic (Brooklyn Museum 61.209). Peru - 1000-1532

Tunic (Louvre E 23518; TC 805). Egypt - 1250-1510

Uncu (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.2002.101.9). Peru - 14th C.

Chequey tunic (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.133). Peru - 1400-1532 

Tunic with chevrons (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.93). Peru - 1400-1532

Uncu (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.78.54.8). Peru - 1450-1532

Tunic with diamond motif (Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2001.1399). Peru - 1450–1532

Tunic with diamond band (Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2001.1184). Peru - 1450–1532

Incomplete tunic (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.75.50.3a-b). Peru - ca. 1450-1540 

Uncu (Ethnologisches Museum V A 4576). Peru - 1450-1550 

Uncu (Ethnologisches Museum V A 16289). Peru - 1450-1550

Miniature chequy uncu (Ethnologisches Museum V A 55462). Peru - 1450-1550 

Miniature uncu (Ethnologisches Museum V A 28915 b). Peru - 1450-1550

Uncu (Ethnologisches Museum V A 66009). Chile - 1450-1550 

Uncu (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.72.68.10). Peru - 1470-1532

Uncu (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.76.45.8). Peru - 1470-1532

Uncu (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.77.70.12). Peru - late 15th-early 16th C.

Uncu (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.78.54.2). 16th C.

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