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Lot 51102:
Ritual vessel used for pouring liquids during ceremonies related to growth and fertility. Pacchas were associated with the cult of pachamama (Mother Earth) and the apus (mountain tops covered with snow).
Height: 32.5 cm
Catalogue: 118 (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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