Mouth Mask
100 BC-AD 700
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Mouth Mask, 100 BC-AD 700. Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700). Hammered gold alloy; overall: 14 x 19.4 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.377
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- hammered gold alloy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14 x 19.4 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1945.377
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Americas, A Cleveland Bestiary, Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945 - January 6, 1946. "Art of the Americas." <br><br>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23 - April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold." <br><br>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; October 14-December 9, 1981: "A Cleveland Bestiary." cat. no. 41, repr. p. 47.<br><br>New York NY: Americas Society Art Gallery; September 15-December 31, 1991: Masks of the Americas." cat.no. 9, p. 20.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 232 Andean
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