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Lot 51019:
A unique complex scene showing a naked supine male with elaborate headdress, surrounded by humans, beings from the afterworld, animals and other elements of mysterious character. The principal personage is showing his penis, emerging from it are five birds. It may be a transportation of a vision caused by hallucinations used in a shamanistic ritual inspired by the myth or ritual representation.
Height: 15.3 cm
Catalogue: 38 (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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