Funeral bundle mask. The face features a short nose highlighted...
Funeral bundle mask. The face features a short nose highlighted in slight relief and open eyes shaped like diamonds, with a small mouth marked by a light incision. The forehead is encircled by an attached cotton fabric headband.
Wood painted with red (cinnabar) and white (kaolin) pigments; hair; cotton fabric.
Dimensions: 26 x 22 cm.
Central Coast of Peru. Chancay culture. 1100–1400 AD.
(Repaired and glued; presented in a Plexiglas case)
Provenance:
Roger Lefèvre, Brussels (according to an insurance inventory)
Private collection, Brussels; acquired from the previous owner in 1988
Passed down through the family
Funeral bundle mask. The face features a short nose highlighted in slight relief and open eyes shaped like diamonds, with a small mouth marked by a light incision. The forehead is encircled by an attached cotton fabric headband.
Wood painted with red (cinnabar) and white (kaolin) pigments; hair; cotton fabric.
Dimensions: 26 x 22 cm.
Central Coast of Peru. Chancay culture. 1100–1400 AD.
(Repaired and glued; presented in a Plexiglas case)
Provenance:
Roger Lefèvre, Brussels (according to an insurance inventory)
Private collection, Brussels; acquired from the previous owner in 1988
Passed down through the family
