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Source Description
The Paracas people buried their dead in bundles that they created by carefully wrapping the seated human body in layers of garments and other textiles. In some cases, they placed a painted <br>cloth—such as these examples—on the outer layer and at the top of the bundle. The hair-like <br>yarns (unwoven warps) were arranged around a solid cotton disk that was sometimes wrapped <br>with a headband. The cloths, then, seem to have functioned as the bundle’s head, even though <br>some are painted not with faces but with complete figures whose supernatural character is marked by the appendages streaming from their bodies.
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Document identity
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119683
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Mummy Bundle "Mask"
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object
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1
Source metadata
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119683
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object
title
Mummy Bundle "Mask"
description
The Paracas people buried their dead in bundles that they created by carefully wrapping the seated human body in layers of garments and other textiles. In some cases, they placed a painted <br>cloth—such as these examples—on the outer layer and at the top of the bundle. The hair-like <br>yarns (unwoven warps) were arranged around a solid cotton disk that was sometimes wrapped <br>with a headband. The cloths, then, seem to have functioned as the bundle’s head, even though <br>some are painted not with faces but with complete figures whose supernatural character is marked by the appendages streaming from their bodies.
date
400–200 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80014844
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 103.5 x 40 cm (40 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
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Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BCE–1 CE)
accession
1940.521
Source extras
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cotton and pigment, plain weave
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Mummy Bundle "Mask", 400–200 BCE. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site, Paracas style (700 BCE–1 CE). Cotton and pigment, plain weave; overall: 103.5 x 40 cm (40 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1940.521
collection
T - Pre-Columbian
didYouKnow
These masks fall into two categories, those with only a face and those with a full-bodied figure.
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The Norweb Collection
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2026-05-29 06:10:45.724000
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119683
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Textiles
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T - Pre-Columbian
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cotton and pigment, plain weave
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1
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0
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photo
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