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Knotted Tunics with Intertwining Serpents, Central-South Coast, Prob. Ica Valley, Peru, Early Horizon 300-100 BCE

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Paracas cavernas

oblique twining and cross-knit loop in yellow, orange and dark brown camelid fibers.

131 x 49 cm

63 x 75 cm

60 x 36 cm

Catalogue: 2,3,4 (for more details, refer to this number in the literature here: https://shorturl.at/fisMU)

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

Notes: Most items from the Cottier collection were purchased from prominent collectors such as Carlos Campilli (Miami), Sophie Pdgorska (Geneva) and Marguerite Motte (Paris).

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