decorative
Lot 51060:
A small wooden figurine of the anthropomorphized feline deity, the mythological Huari Sacrificer. The personage has a feline head, human body and stylized wings. He holds a semicircular knife in his right hand and a human head in the left; two trophy heads adorn the sides of his figure. The sculpture has a tube in the upper part. Originally it was probably covered with a cap and used as a lime container during coca rituals.
Height: 7.5 cm
Catalogue: 77 (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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