The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Mummy Bundle "Mask"
200 BCE–1 CE
Location: not on view
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These masks fall into two categories, those with only a face and those with a full-bodied figure.Description
This mummy bundle was likely found on mummy bundles made of a seated human body carefully wrapped in textiles. In some instances, the Paracas people placed a painted cloth like these at the top of the bundle. The cloth was padded on the back so it curved outward like a face, and the tress-like yarns (unwoven warps) at the upper edge were arranged around a solid cotton disk that, in turn, was wrapped with a headband. The cloths, then, seem to have functioned as the bundle’s face or mask.- ?-1940Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1940The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Gallery 232-Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 28, 2019-November 9, 2020).Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 20, 2013-August 25, 2014).Ancient Peruvian Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 5-April 6,1941).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.517