id: 119693 accession number: 1940.530 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.530 updated: 2025-06-11 11:04:25.863000 Cloth with Procession of Figures, 170 BCE–70 CE (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people. Cotton and pigment (field); camelid fiber (borders and fringe); overall: 69.8 x 280.7 cm (27 1/2 x 110 1/2 in.); mounted: 78.7 x 290.2 cm (31 x 114 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1940.530 title: Cloth with Procession of Figures title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 170 BCE–70 CE (radiocarbon date, 95% probability) creation date earliest: -170 creation date latest: 70 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people technique: cotton and pigment (field); camelid fiber (borders and fringe) department: Textiles collection: T - Pre-Columbian type: Textile find spot: Said to have been excavated from the necropolis at Cerro Colorado on the Paracas Peninsula, Peru catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 69.8 x 280.7 cm (27 1/2 x 110 1/2 in.); Mounted: 78.7 x 290.2 cm (31 x 114 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Americas opening date: 1945-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946). title: Treasures of Peruvian Gold opening date: 1966-02-23T05:00:00 Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966). title: Andean Gallery 107 Rotation opening date: 2001-11-21T05:00:00 Andean Gallery 107 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21, 2001-November 18, 2002). title: Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation opening date: 2016-08-30T04:00:00 Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 30, 2016-August 21, 2017). title: Ancient Andean Textiles opening date: 2021-12-04T05:00:00 Ancient Andean Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Ancient Arts of the Andes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26- March 26, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-01-26T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Emery May Holden Norweb (1895-1984) and Raymond Henry Norweb (1894-1983), Cleveland OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1940 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1940- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "Exhibition of the "Art of the Americas"." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 9 (1945) page number: cat. no. 10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141236 Art of the Americas: Picture Book No. 2. (Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art,1946.) page number: pl. 10 url: The Tiger's Eye. 1, no.5 (October, 1948) page number: 83, fig.76 url: Bennett, Wendell C. and Bird, Junius Bouton. Andean Culture History. American Museum of Natural History, Handbook Series 15. (New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1949.) page number: p.287, fig. 57 url: Foote, Helen. "Early Peruvian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 3 (March 1950): 54-56. page number: Mentioned: p. 56 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141621 "Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Archaeology 6, no. 4 (1953) page number: p. 201 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41663172 Bennett, Wendell Clark. Ancient Arts of the Andes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. page number: p. 56, figs. 58, 60 url: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and Wendell Clark Bennett. 32 Masterworks of Andean Art from the Exhibition Ancient Arts of the Andes. 1955. page number: p. 59, Cat. No. 56, Fig. 58, Pl. 2, Fig. 60 url: "The Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts 30, no. 2 (November, 1955). page number: p. 42 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 343 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n66 Hissink, Karin and Hahn, Albert. Die Tacana, I Erzahlungsgut. Universitat Frankfurt am Main. Frobenius-Institut Veroffentlichungen. (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1961.) page number: p. 549 url: Dockstader, Frederick J. "Indian Art of the Americas Before and After Columbus." Art in America. XLIX, no. 3 (1961.) page number: p. 24 url: Kubler, George. The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples. (Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1962.) page number: p. 296, pl. 172a url: Hawley, Henry. "Pre-Columbian Art at Cleveland." Apollo. LXVIII (December, 1963). page number: p. 491, pl. XVI url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 296 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n320 Glubok, Shirley. The Art of Ancient Peru. (New York: Harper & Row, 1966.) page number: p. 28 url: Grieder, Terrance, "Demons and Discipline in Ancient Peru." Art News LXVII (October 1968) page number: p. 42 fig. 43 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 296 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n320 The Little Art Book Series. Introduction by Sherman E. Lee; texts for the reproductions by the curators of the departments of the museum. Ed. Berthold Fricke. (Hannover, Germany: Knorr & Hirth, 1970) page number: p. 85 url: Meggers, Betty Jane. Prehistoric America. Chicago: Aldine·Atherton, 1972. page number: p. 81, fig. 51 url: Rowe, Ann P. "Interlocking Warp and Weft in the Nasca 2 Style." Textile Museum Journal III, no. 3 (December, 1972). page number: p. 74, fig. 10 url: Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference, Junius Bouton Bird, Ann Pollard Rowe, Elizabeth P. Benson, and Anne-Louise Schaffer. The Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference, May 19th and 20th, 1973. 1979. page number: p. 131, fig. 2 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 400 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n420 Méry, Fernand, and Emma Street. The Life, History and Magic of the Cat. 1978. page number: p. 26 url: Wilson, Kax. A History of Textiles. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1979. page number: plate 108 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Adele Z. Silver. Guide to the Galleries. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: url: Benson, Elizabeth P., and William J. Conklin. Museums of the Andes. New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, 1981. page number: p. 29 url: Kajitani, Nobuko. Andesu no senshoku. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1982. page number: p. 37, plate 40 url: Saunders, Nicholas J. People of the Jaguar: The Living Spirit of Ancient America. 1989. page number: p. 138 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27 Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: p. 43 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1991. page number: no. 43 url: Konig, Viola. “Don Luys II” Baessler-Archiv. Beitrage zur Volkerkunde Bd. 41 (1993). page number: p. 153, abb. 3 url: Dumbarton Oaks, and Elizabeth Hill Boone. Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996. page number: pp. 344, 359-360, figs. 122, 127, pl. 99 url: Lavalle de Cárdenas, Rosario de, and José Antonio de Lavalle. Tejidos Milenarios Del Perú = Ancient Peruvian Textiles. [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]: Integra AFP, 1999. page number: p. 182-3, pl. 30 url: Silverman, Helaine, and William Harris Isbell. Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002. page number: p. 93, fig. 3.8 url: Cáceres Macedo, Justo, and Justo Cáceres Macedo. Tejidos del Perú prehispánico = Textiles of the prehispanic Peru. Lima, Peru: Justo Cáceres Macedo, 2005. page number: p. 376 url: Fagan, Brian M., and Christopher R. DeCorse. In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. page number: p. 278, fig. 11.18 url: Palmero, Paola Buratti. Mantas di Jasimaná: l'abilità tessile di un'antica etnia delle Ande Argentine. [Biella]: Progetto Ermanno, 2006. page number: p. 40, fig. 6 url: Frame, Mary. “Cronología de los fardos funerarios de Wari Kayan, Paracas Necrópolis.” Hilos del pasado: el aporte francés al legado Paracas. Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 2007. page number: p. 35, 43-44, 46 url: Frame, Mary. “Cronología de los fardos funerarios de Wari Kayan, Paracas Necrópolis.” Hilos del pasado: el aporte francés al legado Paracas. Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 2007. page number: 35, 43-44, 46 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 42-3 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 341 url: Boucherie, Nathalie, Witold Nowik, Dominique Cardon, "Etude de Colorants d'une Offrande textile (Y16) Exceptionnelle, decouverte dur le Site de Cahuachi (Culture Nasca)," Techne No. 41 (2015). page number: pp. 47-54 url: Fagan, Brian M. Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory. 2017. page number: p. 418 url: "New in the Galleries.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 1 (January/February 2017): Back cover. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover. url: Fagan, Brian M., and Nadia Durrani. World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction. 2020. page number: p. 329 url: page number: Mentioned: p. 112, 134, 137; Reproduced: p. 135 (fig. 24) url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.530/1940.530_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.530/1940.530_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.530/1940.530_full.tif