
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Funerary Bundle Mask
Paracas · 2nd century BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru, by Apr. 26, 1957 [through Pan American Shop, New York; incoming receipt RX2213, Apr. 26, 1957; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- South Bend, IN, Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Art of Ancient Peru, Dec. 20, 1961-Jan. 28, 1962.
- Durham, NC, Woman's College Library of Duke University, Art and Artifacts of Pre-Columbian Peru, Dec. 17, 1964-Jan. 20, 1965.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Sept. 11, 1986-Feb. 17, 1987.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, July 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9772/on-loss-and-absence-textiles-of-mourning-and-survival"><em>On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival</em></a>, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.
Literature
Published references
- Mary Elizabeth King, "Textiles and Basketry of the Paracas Period, Ica Valley, Peru" (Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 1965), 125.
- Sarah Molina and Cybele Tom, "Representing and Re-Presenting Textiles," in On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, eds. Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 122, fig. 9 (ill.).
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