id: 119693 accession number: 1940.530 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.530 updated: 2020-11-30 10:00:05.882000 Cloth with Procession of Figures, 170 BC-AD 70 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people, 100 BC-AD 700, Early Intermediate Period, 1-650. 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 BC-AD 70 (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, 100 BC-AD 700, Early Intermediate Period, 1-650 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Ancient Arts of the Andes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26- March 26, 1954).
Treasures of Peruvian Gold, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (February 23- March 3, 1966).
Gallery 107 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2001-November 18, 2002). --- 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: Characteristics of the pampas cat and the emperor tamarin monkey are visible in the marching figures. digital description: wall description: This Nasca cloth is among the most famous surviving Andean textiles and one of the museum's great treasures. On it is painted a procession of figures interpreted as deities or humans impersonating deities. The procession's purpose is not clear, but its sacrificial overtones are. At the far left, a figure touches a human head with its tongue, and severed heads tip the streamers that flow from several other figures. In Nasca art, severed heads seem to symbolize the life force used to promote nature's fertility. Procession, apparently a part of Nasca ceremonial life, perhaps had the same goal. For instance, we suspect that the Nasca lines—huge ground drawings of lines, geometric forms, and animals—were walked by processions during water rites, because the lines are like paths and often relate to nearby rivers. Several of the figures wear feline mouth masks. One figure wears outspread wings, others a tunic (shirt) and either a triangular loincloth or a skirt, all items of male costume. The function of the cloth, a fragment that is incomplete along the upper edge, is unclear. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wilson, Kax. A History of Textiles. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1979. page number: plate 108 url: Méry, Fernand, and Emma Street. The Life, History and Magic of the Cat. 1978. page number: p. 26 url: Grieder, Terrance, "Demons and Discipline in Ancient Peru." 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Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory. 2017. page number: p. 418 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