Turban Band (Llauto) (c. 300–100 BCE): Art, History and Details

Turban Band (Llauto) (c. 300–100 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Repeated along the length of this headband is a double-headed bird motif, in which the two heads are seen in profile and joined to a frontal body with outstretched wings. This design also appears in the tunic (1946.227) and mantle (1946.226). These three textiles may have formed a matched set that a socially prominent Paracas man would have worn as an ensemble.

Object facts

• Title: Turban Band (Llauto)
• Date: c. 300–100 BCE
• Culture: Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Late Period
• Type: Textile
• Technique: wool and cotton: needle reseau (netting)
• Dimensions: Overall: 426.5 x 7 cm (167 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Pre-Columbian
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1946.228

A detail from the museum

This headband may form a matched set with a mantle and tunic in the collection.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Wise, John, and Wendell Clark Bennett. Ancient Peruvian Art, Lent by John Wise, Esq., New York; an Exhibition of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Opening March 3, 1937, Hartford, Connecticut. 1937.

View the collection record

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