id: 124741 accession number: 1946.228 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.228 updated: 2022-10-28 22:00:27.363000 Turban Band (Llauto), c. 300–100 B.C.. Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Late Period, 3rd-1st Century BC. Needle reseau (netting): wool and cotton; overall: 426.5 x 7 cm (167 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1946.228 title: Turban Band (Llauto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 300–100 B.C. creation date earliest: -300 creation date latest: -100 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Late Period, 3rd-1st Century BC technique: needle reseau (netting): wool and cotton department: Textiles collection: T - Pre-Columbian type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 426.5 x 7 cm (167 15/16 x 2 3/4 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: Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation opening date: 2013-03-20T04:00:00 Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 20, 2013-August 25, 2014). title: Gallery 232-Andean Textile Rotation opening date: 2019-08-28T04:00:00 Gallery 232-Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 28, 2019-November 9, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The John Wise Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art. The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (March 3, 1937-).
Ancient Peruvian Textiles, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 5, 1941-April 6, 1941). --- PROVENANCE Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1946, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1946 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1946 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This headband may form a matched set with a mantle and tunic in the collection. digital description: wall description: Made by weavers of the Paracas people of Peru’s south coast between 300 BC and AD 100, the tunic (1946.227), headband (1946.228), and mantle (a shawl-like wrap, 1946.226)—are similar to those recovered from the Paracas Necrópolis, a renowned cemetery on the Paracas Peninsula. The cemetery contained over 400 mummy bundles of varying sizes, each created by wrapping a human body in cloth. (In one instance, 45 pounds of beans replaced the corpse, indicating that ancestors were tied to fertility.) In small bundles, the cloth was plain; in the less common larger bundles, some nearly five feet tall, plain cloth alternated with colorful, elaborately embroidered garments like the three shown here.

The three garments are all decorated with the same image—a two-headed bird of unknown significance rendered in different orientations and color combinations. It is not clear whether the textiles form a matched set that an important Paracas man wore as an ensemble. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wise, John, and Wendell Clark Bennett. Ancient Peruvian Art, Lent by John Wise, Esq., New York; an Exhibition of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Opening March 3, 1937, Hartford, Connecticut. 1937. page number: Cat. No. 144 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.228/1946.228_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.228/1946.228_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.228/1946.228_full.tif