Cleveland Museum of Art

Pin with Yarn Figure

Date

c. 300 BCE–200 CE

Medium

wood, yarn, paint

Culture

Peru, South Coast, Nasca style?

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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 illustrates the use of resin pigment on materials other than ceramics.

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