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Lot 51031:
Representation of a condor, the biggest flying bird of the region, considered the lord of the air and one of the major spirits of the upper world. As carrion eaters, condors maybe associated with a complex set of ideas such as predation death, resurrection and sacrifice.
Height: 20.1 cm
Catalogue: 50 (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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