#Caturday costume: #feline face masks! Hammered #gold nose-mouth ornaments hung from nasal septum with opening around mouth and #serpents as whiskers. The reddish one is also coated in cinnabar. #Nazca, South Coast #Peru, c.100 BCE-750CE.
1 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://archive.artsmia.org/sacred-symbols/preview-mouth-mask.html
2 Cleveland Museum of Art
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1945.377
3 Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91893/nose-and-mouth-ornament
Here is another #Nazca gold #feline mask with an interesting variation - #hummingbird whiskers!
"Early Nasca style, 1st century BCE, gold...from an exhibit at
the Textile Museum, George Washington University"
https://tinyurl.com/3tz328dz
#Caturday
BTW there are many images on #Nazca #ceramics showing how these feline face masks were worn -
examples from the Art Institute of Chicago collection:
single spout vessel https://artic.edu/artworks/91355/warrior-vessel
single spout vessel https://artic.edu/artworks/91438/single-spout-vessel-in-the-form-of-a-seated-figure-wearing-mask-and-headdress-holding-a-trophy-head
bowl https://artic.edu/artworks/91097/bowl-depicting-a-costumed-ritual-performer-with-abstract-plants-holding-a-captive
collared jar https://artic.edu/artworks/4805/collared-jar-depicting-costumed-ritual-performer-holding-checkerboard-staff