The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Tunic Fragments with Bird-Headed Creature
600–1000
Overall: 88.6 x 101.9 cm (34 7/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
The bird-headed creature in profile that repeats in each of this tunic's design fields gazes upward, holds a staff of authority in front of its body, and wears an ornate headdress behind which a three-feathered wing can be seen. The extremely high technical quality of such tunics suggests that the Wari reserved bird imagery for their most exalted rulers. Here, the original incorporated more than twice as much yarn as the routine--some 19 miles, all handmade and much dyed an inky, dark blue, the most prestigious of Wari colors.- Bergh, Susan E., "From the Realm of the Condor", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 08, October 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6 archive.orgBergh, Susan E., Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, and Luis Jaime Castillo. Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes. [New York]: Thames & Hudson; [Cleveland] : The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. Mentiioned: p. 272, cat. 103; Reproduced: p. 166, fig. 152
- Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2020-August 19, 2021).Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 5, 2015-August 29, 2016).Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 28, 2012-January 6, 2013).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.53