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An Effigy Bow: Nude Female, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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Ritual double-bottomed vessel for drinking or pouring liquids. The vulva, anis , navel and two additional openings of the presented nude female constitute holes to the chamber of the vessel inside her body.

Height: 7.5 cm; max diameter: 21.5 cm

Catalogue: 70 (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.