Cleveland Museum of Art
Tunic with Sacrificer
- Date
- 600–1000
- Medium
- camelid-fiber, cotton; tapestry weave
- Culture
- South America, Peru, Central Andes, Middle Horizon, Wari people, 7th-11th century
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
An extremely abstract supernatural sacrifice repeats in different colors and orientations across the body of this tunic, which was shortened on one side in antiquity. Look for the toothy black-and-white mouth in the sacrificer's upward-gazing head; other facial features include a button nose and a vertically divided eye. The figure holds the L-shaped haft of an axe behind its back and, at the front of its body, a short staff with a severed, upside-down human head on the top.
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