Paracas
Mummy Mask Fragment
Paracas, 900-100
Physical Qualities
Cotton, fiber, brown pigment, 9 1/16 × 26 in. (23 × 66 cm.) (includes warp threads)
Credit Line
Gift of Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore
Object Number
2007.239
This piece represents the outer cloth cover of a bundle that served as a surrogate head for the mummy of an elite individual. The dangling warp threads would have been braided or fashioned into a turban.
The cloth consists of a beige square on which a central figure, surrounded by curvillinear abstract designs, has been painted in brown pigment.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore
