decorative
Lot 51101:
Large wooden post of huarango wood with roughly carved depiction of a human head at the top. The personage wears a simple headdress with two symmetrical appendages. This kind of objects may be identified with Ica-Chincha house posts or markers of ancestral tombs.
Height: 169 cm
Catalogue: 117 (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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