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Ornament
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About this work
With its grinning mouth and long, protruding tongue, the face embossed on this fragmentary ornament resembles linear images painted on mummy masks and woven on doublecloth tunics and mantles. Both painted mummy masks and doublecloth garments are most often found in the Ica Valley, a short distance south of the Paracas Peninsula. The ornament's original function is uncertain.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineOrnament, c. 300 BCE–100 CE. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley?, Paracas, c. 300 BC-AD 100. Hammered and embossed gold-copper alloy; overall: 8.8 x 4.8 cm (3 7/16 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1940.513
