Mummy Bundle Head

Mummy Bundle Head

Public Domain

Mummy Bundle Head
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
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
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

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