Mummy Bundle Head with Mask

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CultureWari (Huari)

Titles

Mummy Bundle Head with Mask

Date650–900 AD

PlacePeru

MediumTextile, feathers, gold, and copper

DimensionsOverall: 19 1/2 × 8 in. (49.5 × 20.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.450

Non exposé

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

MUMMIES, TOMB & FUNERARY ART

Provenance[William Siegal Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, by 2004] [1]; Bentley Dillard Collection, Scottsdale, AZ [2]; purchased by Gary Hendershott, Little Rock, AK [2]; [Heritage Important Pre-Columbian Art of the Hendershott Collection, September 29, 2006, lot 47239]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, 2006–2008; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

[1] Pre-Columbian Art catalog (Santa Fe, NM: William Siegal Galleries, 2004), item 26.
[2] Heritage Auction Catalog, 2006.

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