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Aug 17, 2010
Aug 17, 2010
Mouth Mask
Mouth Mask
100 BC-AD 700
Peru, South Coast, Nasca style
(100 BC-AD 700)
Hammered gold alloy
Overall: 14 x 19.4 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.377
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Description
Nasca figures, like one on a bowl nearby, are shown wearing such forehead ornaments and mouth masks similar to these. The mouth mask hung from the nasal septum, the oval opening surrounding the mouth and the bristles positioned as feline whiskers, here transformed to serpents. Both were cut from sheet gold; details were worked freehand while the sheet rested on a soft surface.
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