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Turban Band (Llauto)

Turban Band (Llauto)

c. 300–100 BCE
needle reseau (netting): wool and cotton
Overall: 426.5 x 7 cm (167 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1946.228
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This headband may form a matched set with a mantle and tunic in the collection.

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.
  • ?-1946
    Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1946, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1946
    The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • 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. Cat. No. 144
  • 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).
    Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946).
    Ancient Peruvian Textiles, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 5, 1941-April 6, 1941).
    The John Wise Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art. The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (March 3, 1937-).
  • {{cite web|title=Turban Band (Llauto)|url=false|author=|year=c. 300–100 BCE|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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