Mummy Bundle Head

Public Domain

En lire plusFavori

CultureWari (Huari)

Titles

Mummy Bundle Head

Date650–900 AD

PlacePeru, South America

MediumWoven cotten, camelid wool, wood, paint, feathers, hair, and copper

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 × 8 × 9 1/4 in. (24.1 × 20.3 × 23.5 cm)
Other (Hair): 20 in. (50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2001.1003

Non exposé

Explore Further

Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

MUMMIES, TOMB & FUNERARY ART

Provenance(Lot #6 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, February 25, 1981. Sale #4548Y);
(Lot # 28 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, May 19, 1992);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1003

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Découvrir plus

Falcon-form Coffin with Grain Mummy

332–30 BC

Painted and gilded wood, grain, earth, linen, and wax

2006.280

Female Figure with Cloak

1450–1532 AD

Cast silver and woven camelid wool

2001.1397.A-.D

Mummy Bundle Head with Mask

650–900 AD

Textile, feathers, gold, and copper

2010.450

Mummy Bundle Head

800–1450 AD

Wood, wool, cotton, raffia, hair, and paint

2010.449

Mummy Mask

323–30 BC

Painted and gilded cartonnage

31.50

Mummy of a Child

30 BC–150 AD

Painted linen

2006.530

Painted Wooden Coffin of the Sacred Ibis of Thoth

332–30 BC

Wood with polychrome decoration

2008.808

Mummy Portrait of a Young Woman

1–100 AD

Painted wood, wax, textile

2009.16

Mummy Mask of a Young Woman

100–130 AD

Painted plaster

2009.421

Hawk Ornament for a Mummy Cover

664–30 BC

Egyptian faience

31.82

Papyrus with Hieratic Inscription about Neskhonsu, the Singer of the Great God Amun

1069–945 BC

Tempera and ink on papyrus

31.73

Shabti

1550–1069 BC

Limestone with paint

31.48