Headdress

Headdress

Public Domain

CultureChimú
Titles
  • Headdress
Date1100–1450 AD
PlacePeru
MediumFeathers, cotton cloth, and string
Dimensions20 × 6 15/16 × 14 in. (50.8 × 17.7 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2517
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceManoogian Collection, Detroit; [Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1991, Pre-Columbian Sale 6177, Lot 235] [1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, May 14, 1991–2004 [1]; given to MFAH, 2004.

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