Pin with Yarn Figure

c. 300 BCE–200 CE Overall: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.76

Paracas headgear from mummy bundles sometimes incorporate human-hair wigs, wound with long headbands and slings. Ornamented with a diminutive kneeling figure, this pin may have been used like a hat pin to hold the wrappings in place. Although poorly preserved, this object illu...

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