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Whistling Double-Chambered Vessel: A Man's Head inside a House-like Structure, Peru, 200 BCE- 400 CE

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Representations of the architectonical structures were quite popular in the pottery f many North Coast cultures. In this case, the features such as the big earplugs and headdress suggest an important person.

Height: 16 cm

Catalogue: 14 (for more details, refer to this number in the literature here: https://shorturl.at/bCKRV)

Provenance: Private collection, Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate of Yossef Maiman.

Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Weaving for the Afterlife – Peruvian Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006.