OTHER PARACAS COLLECTIONS IN PERU, SWEDEN AND ELSEWHERE
The biggest collection of Paracas textiles is in Museo Nacional de Antopologia y Arqueologia in Lima, Peru. The same museum has a large number of funerary bundles which have not been unpacked.
The biggest collections outside Peru are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, as well as the Museum of World Culture in Göteborg. The remarkable thing about these collections is the large number of complete costumes they include, enabling scholars to investigate many different aspects of these textiles – techniques, colouring and patterning, for example – in one and the same place.
Fragments of one and the same textile item are often to be found in different collections. For example, fragments from the Göteborg collection are to be found in both Buenos Aires and Stockholm.
There are Paracas textiles in other Swedish collections besides the one in Göteborg. The Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm has 60 ore more objects with a Paracas connection. Kulturen in Lund has several Peruvian fragments.
