Cleveland Museum of Art
Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess
- Date
- 800–500 BCE
- Medium
- Cotton, pigments
- Culture
- Andes, south coast, Ica Valley?, Chavín style
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The figure painted on this fragment represents a female deity with a large, fanged mouth. Further fanged heads occur on the chest, legs, feet, waist, and staffs of authority she holds. Edging both the staffs and the top of the head are white cotton bolls that have caused the deity to be dubbed the Cotton Goddess and associated with nature’s fertility. The fragment comes from a larger textile, perhaps a ceremonial hanging.
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