Headdress ornament

Nasca artist(s)

100 BCE–700 CE · Gold · Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Compared to the northern Peruvian coast, where large quantities of gold objects have been found in elaborate tombs, burials on the south coast have yielded rare and modest gold finds. Among the few southern ornaments are objects with thick rigid stems at the bottom, likely ornaments affixed to the turbanlike headdresses of important individuals.

Artist

Nasca artist(s)

Date

100 BCE–700 CE

Medium

Gold

Culture

Nasca

Department

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Credit line

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979