id: 119669 accession number: 1940.509 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.509 updated: 2022-01-04 15:21:02.680000 Forehead Ornament, 100 BC-700. Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700). Hammered gold alloy; overall: 27.4 x 9.3 cm (10 13/16 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.509 title: Forehead Ornament title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100 BC-700 creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: 700 current location: 232 Andean creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700) technique: hammered gold alloy department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 27.4 x 9.3 cm (10 13/16 x 3 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1940 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1940 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Tumbaga is an alloy made by blending gold with copper, which may give the gold a rosy hue. digital description: wall description: Nasca figures, like one on a bowl nearby, are shown wearing such forehead ornaments and mouth masks similar to these. The mouth mask hung from the nasal septum, the oval opening surrounding the mouth and the bristles positioned as feline whiskers, here transformed to serpents. Both were cut from sheet gold; details were worked freehand while the sheet rested on a soft surface. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.509/1940.509_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.509/1940.509_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.509/1940.509_full.tif