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Headdress Ornament
c. 300 BC-AD 200
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
A similar star-shaped metal ornament is present on a human-hair wig from a mummy excavated at the Paracas Necropolis site. The wig has tresses wrapped with colored yarns, and a long headband wrapped many times around the head. The star-shaped ornament is attached to the headband, and a circular metal ornament is attached to the braid.
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- Title: Headdress Ornament
- Date Created: c. 300 BC-AD 200
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 5.2 x 4.6 cm (2 1/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type: Jewelry
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.511
- Medium: hammered and embossed gold-copper alloy
- Fun Fact: <em>Tumbaga</em> is an alloy made by blending gold with copper, which may give the gold a rosy hue.
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Peru, South Coast, Paracas
- Credit Line: The Norweb Collection
- Collection: AA - Andes
- Accession Number: 1940.511
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