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Lot 51076:
Depiction of a man with a strange looking headdress, seated cross-legged with hands on his knees. Hunchbacks as well as other disabled people in the Andes, were believed to have magical powers and predestinated to be priests, shamans and honored participants in rituals.
Height: 18.2 cm
Catalogue: 91 (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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