Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Late Period / c. 300–100 BCE
Turban Band (Llauto)
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Turban Band (Llauto) as textile (Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Late Period · c. 300–100 BCE).
This headband may form a matched set with a mantle and tunic in the collection.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this textile as wool and cotton: needle reseau (netting).
The museum's collection notes: 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.
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The Cleveland Museum of ArtTurban Band (Llauto)Original explanation based on the sources above. Images carry their own reuse terms.