2-737-817 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Pin with Yarn Figure, c. 300 BC-AD 200. Paracas headgear from mummy bundles sometimes incorporate human-hair wigs, wound with long headbands and slings. This pin, ornamented with a diminutive kneeling figure, may have been used like a hat pin, to hold the wrappings in place. Although poorly preserved, this object illustrates the use of resin pigment on materials other than ceramics.