Head Cloth (Q60746956)
Label from: English (en)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used:
cotton fabric (Q8231603)
fabrication method:
tie dyeing (Q2569969)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.60
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: This lovely, sheer panel—patterned entirely with tie-dyeing—was probably worn as a head cloth, a common article of women’s wear among the Chancay people of Peru’s central coast. Its colors are reminiscent of deep twilight, when the sky turns a luminous, dark blue and a shimmer of orange light appears on the horizon. It is not known whether the squares in the field have symbolic significance.
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