About the Artwork
Mummy Mask
between 300 and 100 BCE
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Precolumbian
Paracas
Cotton and pigment
Overall (from chin over forehead to end of fringe): 15 7/8 inches (40.3 cm) Overall (width): 17 × 12 inches (43.2 × 30.5 cm)
Textiles
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Emma S. Fechimer Fund and William C. Yawkey Fund
1987.29
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Provenance
collection of Irwin and Marcia Hersey. 1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sales catalogue. New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, May 19, 1987, ill. 25.
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Paracas, Precolumbian, Mummy Mask, between 300 and 100 BCE, cotton and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Emma S. Fechimer Fund and William C. Yawkey Fund, 1987.29.
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