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Head Cloth
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About this work
This tie-dyed panel was probably worn as a head cloth, a common article of women’s wear among the Chancay people of Peru’s central coast. Its colors are reminiscent of a deep twilight, when the sky turns a luminous, dark blue and a shimmer of orange light appears on the horizon. It is not known whether the repeated squares have symbolic significance.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHead Cloth, 1000–1460s. Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people. Cotton; overall: 99.1 x 99.1 cm (39 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.60
