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"
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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:	plain warp-faced cloth, painted: cotton
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Pre-Columbian
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 61 x 21.6 cm (24 x 8 1/2 in.)
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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: 
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.
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