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Lot 51049:
Profile representation of a mythical being elaborated in low relief. The creature has an undulated reptile body and a feline head. because of its recurring shedding of skin, the snake was probably linked in Andean thought to complex ideas such as regeneration, renewal, rebirth, growth, fertility and agriculture.
Height: 19.2 cm
Catalogue: 66 (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.
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