The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four-Cornered Hat

Date:: 7th–9th century
Geography:: Peru
Culture:: Wari
Medium:: Camelid hair, cotton
Dimensions:: H. 5 1/2 x W. 4 1/2 in. (14 x 11.4 cm)
Classification:: Textiles-Costumes
Credit Line:: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Accession Number:: 1979.206.724

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Gabriella Passamonti, Lima, Peru, until 1954; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1954, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1958–1978
See also
Who
Wari (129)
What
Costume (41,678)

Textiles (32,752)

Cotton (11,987)

Hats (2,336)

Hair (1,999)

Camelidae (708)
Where
South America (4,531)

Peru (3,460)
When
A.D. 500-1000 (6,672)
In the Museum
Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (11,467)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Central and Southern Andes, 500–1000 A.D.