id: 119693 accession number: 1940.530 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.530 updated: 2019-04-22 09:38:08.491000 Cloth with Procession of Figures, 100 BC-200. Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people, 100 B.C. - A.D. 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: 81.3 x 6.4 cm (32 x 2 1/2 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: 100 BC-200 creation date earliest: 100 creation date latest: 200 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people, 100 B.C. - A.D. 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: 81.3 x 6.4 cm (32 x 2 1/2 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: Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation- August 2016 opening date: 2016-09-06T04:00:00 Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation- August 2016. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- 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). --- 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: Textiles worn by ancient Andean Paracas rulers signify their role as mediators for the supernatural. 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 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 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. 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=66 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=320 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=320 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=420 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: 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: --- 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