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Pin with Yarn Figure
c. 300 BCE–200 CE
- Medium
- wood, yarn, paint
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Peru, South Coast, Nasca style?
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Art of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of John Wise
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Paracas headgear from mummy bundles sometimes incorporate human-hair wigs, wound with long headbands and slings. Ornamented with a diminutive kneeling figure, this pin may have been used like a hat pin to hold the wrappings in place. Although poorly preserved, this object illustrates the use of resin pigment on materials other than ceramics.
