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A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with Frieze of Four Humming Birds, Peru, Early Nasca, 1-200 CE

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Hummingbirds were strongly associate with the fertility of cultivated fields and as emblems of prosperity for the entire society. They have also many shamanistic connotations.

Height: 15.8 cm

Catalogue: 22 (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.