Feathered Ornament Depicting a Masked Figure Holding a Staff

Arts of the Americas

100–300 CE

Nazca
South coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Nasca
Title: Feathered Ornament Depicting a Masked Figure Holding a Staff
Place: Peru (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 100 CE–300 CE
Medium: Feathers, leather, gold, and reed
Dimensions: H.: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1956.402
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Alan R. Sawyer, “Paracas and Nazca Iconography,” Essays in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961), 274 and 497, n. 11.
Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), 1 (ill.).

Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru, by 1956 [sent care of Rudolfo Byrne, Brooklyn, NY; Incoming Receipt RX1914, June 14, 1956, copy in curatorial object file; collected by P. Soldi according to Wardwell 1965, 1]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

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