The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Headdress Ornament
c. 300 BCE–200 CE
Overall: 5.2 x 4.6 cm (2 1/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1940.511
Location: not on view
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Tumbaga is an alloy made by blending gold with copper, which may give the gold a rosy hue.Description
A similar star-shaped metal ornament is present on a human-hair wig from a mummy excavated at the Paracas Necropolis site. The wig has tresses wrapped with colored yarns, and a long headband wrapped many times around the head. The star-shaped ornament is attached to the headband, and a circular metal ornament is attached to the braid.- ?-1940Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1940The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Lakewood, OH: Beck Center; February 2-March 17,1985. Willoughby, OH: The School of fine Arts; January 11- March 2, 1986. Ashtabula, OH: Ashtabula Arts Center; April 12- June 1, 1986. "Objects for the Afterlife: A Selection from Early Peru."
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