Dumbarton Oaks - Headdress Tassel with Composite Creature

Headdress Tassel with Composite Creature

Nasca, Early Intermediate Period
550-750 CE
34.5 cm x 22 cm x 0.95 cm (13 9/16 in. x 8 11/16 in. x 3/8 in.)
wool
PC.B.509

Not on view

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Bibliography

Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 73, cat. 412.

Bliss, Robert Woods 1957 Pre-Columbian Art: The Robert Woods Bliss Collection. Text and Critical Analyses by S. K. Lothrop, Joy Mahler and William F. Foshag. Phaidon, New York. p. 279, cat. 345, pl. CXLII.

Boone, Elizabeth Hill (ED.) 1996 Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks; No. 1. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. vol. 2, p. 366-9, pl. 102.

Frame, Mary n.d. Ancient Peruvian Sprang Fabrics. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1982. fig. 73a-c.

Exhibition History

"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, September 1960 to July 1962.

Acquisition History

Acquired by Robert Woods Bliss before 1957.

Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Washington, DC, 1957-1962.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.