Mummy Mask

Textiles

100/1 B.C.

Paracas
South coast, Peru

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Paracas
Title: Mummy Mask
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.: Made 100 BCE–1 BCE
Medium: Cotton, plain weave with bundles of extended warps; painted
Dimensions: 24.9 × 23.1 cm (9 13/16 × 9 1/8 in.) (without extended warps)
Credit Line: Simeon B. Williams Fund
Reference Number: 1957.76
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Mary Elizabeth King, “Textiles and Basketry of the Paracas Period, Ica Valley, Peru” (Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 1965), 125.

South Bend, IN, Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Art of Ancient Peru, Dec. 20, 1961-Jan. 28, 1962.
Durham, NC, Woman’s College Library of Duke University, Art and Artifacts of Pre-Columbian Peru, Dec. 17, 1964-Jan. 20, 1965.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Sept. 11, 1986-Feb. 17, 1987.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, July 1990-.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.

Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru, by 1957 [via Pan American Shop, New York; incoming receipt Rx2213, Apr. 26, 1957, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

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