Peruvian Mask (IMAGE)

Field Museum

Peruvian Mask

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This mask or "false head," made from fiber-stuffed fabric with wood and paint decoration, would originally have been attached to a South American mummy from Pachamac, a coastal site about 15 miles southeast of Lima, Peru.

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Photo by John Weinstein, courtesy of The Field Museum

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