The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Tunic with Sacrificer
600–1000
Overall: 202.6 x 112 cm (79 3/4 x 44 1/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.179
Location: not on view
Description
An extremely abstract supernatural sacrifice repeats in different colors and orientations across the body of this tunic, which was shortened on one side in antiquity. Look for the toothy black-and-white mouth in the sacrificer's upward-gazing head; other facial features include a button nose and a vertically divided eye. The figure holds the L-shaped haft of an axe behind its back and, at the front of its body, a short staff with a severed, upside-down human head on the top.- Bergh, 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. Mentioned: cat. 114, p. 273; Reproduced: p. 164, fig. 150a, b
- 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); Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art (February 10-May 19, 2013); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (June 16-September 8, 2013).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.179