id:			119677
accession number:	1940.516
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.516
updated:		2023-08-23 19:59:53.456000

Mummy Bundle "Mask", 200 BC-1. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BC-AD1). Cotton and pigment, plain weave; overall: 66 x 20.9 x 3.8 cm (26 x 8 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.516

title:				Mummy Bundle "Mask"
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creation date:			200 BC-1
creation date earliest:		-200
creation date latest:		1
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creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BC-AD1)
technique:	cotton and pigment, plain weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Pre-Columbian
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 66 x 20.9 x 3.8 cm (26 x 8 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Andean Gallery 107 Rotation
	opening date:   2001-11-21T05:00:00
	<i>Andean Gallery 107 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21, 2001-November 18, 2002).

	title:		Gallery 232-Andean Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2019-08-28T04:00:00
	<i>Gallery 232-Andean Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 28, 2019-November 9, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Ancient Peruvian Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 5-April 6, 1941).<br><br>Main Andes Rotation (Gallery 232); March 2013 - August 25, 2014.

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PROVENANCE

	Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1940
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fun fact:
These masks fall into two categories, those with only a face and those with a full-bodied figure.

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wall description:
This mummy bundle was likely found on mummy bundles made of a seated human body carefully wrapped in textiles. In some instances, the Paracas people placed a painted cloth like these at the top of the bundle. The cloth was padded on the back so it curved outward like a face, and the tress-like yarns (unwoven warps) at the upper edge were arranged around a solid cotton disk that, in turn, was wrapped with a headband (see photo). The cloths, then, seem to have functioned as the bundle’s face or mask.
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