© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Openwork Headcloth with Bird and Snake/Feline Motifs

AAT Object Form/FunctionHeadcloths (headgear)

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureChancay

PeriodLate Intermediate

Date1000-1470 CE

MediumCotton

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

DimensionsOverall: 30 × 30 3/8 in. (76.2 × 77.2 cm) Mount: 38 × 38 in. (96.5 × 96.5 cm)

Object number1989.008.163

Exhibition HistoryAndean Fiber Arts from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, May 11 - August 9, 1993
Andean Fiber Arts from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 13 - October 8, 1996
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation, March 2004 - September 2004
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Americas Organics Rotation 1, March 18, 2020 - March 18, 2022
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995), 178, figure 146.
Aryls F. Evans, "Representations of Duality in a Chancay Knotted Weft Wrapping Headcloth in the Collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum" (MA thesis, Emory University, 1995).
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 86.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 264-70, figure 578.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 80.
Rebecca Stone, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca. 3rd Edition (London: Thames and Hudson, 2012), 190, figure 162.
"The Best of the Best: Qumpi (Highest-Status Textiles) in Ancient Andean Thought and Practice", Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/bestofthebest; http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/53.
"Dialogues in Thread: the Quechua Concepts of Ayni, Ukhu, Tinku, Q'iwa, and Ushay," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/dialoguesinthread.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, received as a gift, December 1975.

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