id:			119683
accession number:	1940.521
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.521
updated:		2023-08-23 19:59:55.872000

Mummy Bundle "Mask", 400–200 BCE. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BCE–1 CE). Cotton and pigment, plain weave; overall: 103.5 x 40 cm (40 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.521

title:				Mummy Bundle "Mask"
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creation date:			400–200 BCE
creation date earliest:		-400
creation date latest:		-200
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creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BCE–1 CE)
technique:	cotton and pigment, plain weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Pre-Columbian
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 103.5 x 40 cm (40 3/4 x 15 3/4 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:   2017-08-23T04:00:00
	<i>Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 23, 2017-August 27, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Objects for the Afterlife: A Selection from Early Peru</em>, Beck Center, Lakewood, OH (February 2-March 17,1985); The School of Fine Arts, Willoughby, OH (January 11-March 2, 1986); Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH (April 12-June 1, 1986).

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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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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 (see photo). Some cloths were painted with mask-like faces, and others with full figures, apparently mythical creatures. A painted mummy bundle "mask" still stitched to cotton padding and attached, via unwoven yarns at the top, to a solid cotton disk around which headbands are wound. Photo of a mask at the Textile Museum (91.857) from Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Fig. 123, Washington, D.C., 1996
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IMAGES

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