MOCHE culture Mask. North coast 100 – 800 AD

Date: 100 – 800 AD

Origin: Moche, Peru

Material: Copper

Size: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches

The Moche dead were interred with a wide variety of regalia. Most common amongst these items found in tombs are jewellery—forehead, nose, ear and lip ornaments, headdresses and necklaces—but other adornments, such as masks, have also been discovered. Moche funerary masks are markedly different to those found in other cultures’ tombs (cats 123, 124, 147, 148). Unlike Sicán-Lambayeque masks, which have a distinct flat form with tear-drop-shaped eyes, and Chimú cloth masks, the Moche variety have a rounded fuller face with realistic noses and mouths. They resemble the size and shape of ancient Peruvian faces. The masks are so lifelike and comparable in many ways to Moche portrait head stirrup vessels that they might have been made to resemble particular individuals (cats 93–97).

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