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Chancay Wood, Textile, & Hair Mask, ex-Museum
Chancay Wood, Textile, & Hair Mask, ex-Museum
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Description
Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1425 CE. A large funerary mask carved from wood, with a coiffure of human hair and a camelid wool headdress. The visage is stylized and painted with red cinnabar, white, and black pigments. The wooden panel has broad profile, wide enough to cover an entire face and additional shrouds or wrappings. The panel has two piercings on the lower corners with a braided fiber cord strung through the holes for attaching the mask to mummy wrappings. A simple rectangular mouth is carved into the surface below the protruding beak nose. Diamond-shaped eyes are painted in white and black. Human hairs have been attached to the brow to create a fringe above the eyes, and two longer locks hang down to the sides, framing the face. A woven headband of red and black alpaca or llama wool is wrapped around the brow. These masks were not portraits, but stylized representations of the person they were buried with, and this is a large example of the form! Size: 10" L x 10" W (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm)

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Provenance: ex-Ashland University Museum, Ashland, Ohio, USA, donated to Ashland University between July 1994 to December 1998

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Condition
Earthen encrustations on the wood and hair. Cavity due to old inactive insect activity on the cheek as shown, and second cavity on the verso edge. Discoloration and fraying to textile. Hair and textile are remarkably intact, as are the pigments.
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