id: 119680 accession number: 1940.519 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.519 updated: 2022-01-04 15:21:04.725000 Mummy Bundle "Mask", 200 BC-1. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BC-AD1). Plain warp-faced cloth, painted: cotton; overall: 61 x 21.6 cm (24 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.519 title: Mummy Bundle "Mask" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 200 BC-1 creation date earliest: -200 creation date latest: 1 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BC-AD1) technique: plain warp-faced cloth, painted: cotton department: Textiles collection: T - Pre-Columbian type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 61 x 21.6 cm (24 x 8 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- 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 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1940 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: These masks fall into two categories, those with only a face and those with a full-bodied figure. digital description: wall description: The Paracas people of Peru's South Coast buried their dead in pear-shaped mummy bundles made of a seated human body carefully wrapped in garments and other textiles. Sometimes a painted cloth was placed at the top of the bundle, as though it served as the bundle's face, head, or "mask." 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. Some cloths were painted with mask-like faces, and others with full figures, apparently mythical creatures. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.519/1940.519_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.519/1940.519_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.519/1940.519_full.tif