**Originally Listed At $350**
Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A charming display of seven ancient items formed from wood or tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers. First is a slender pair of wooden needle tips, the lower of which bearing faint traces of black-painted ringlets. Next are two hand-carved wooden dolls, the smaller with no limbs and painted eye circles, and the larger with a raised abdomen, delineated legs, and an elongated head with a crested nose. Three textile panel fragments display an abstract bird with painted red and green details atop a brown panel; an abstract deer with painted eyes and peripheral stippling atop a blue panel; and a brown pouch fragment with diagonal triangular motifs in hues of coffee, cobalt, and wheat. All items mounted within a woven matting within a wooden frame. Size of largest (doll w/ legs): 1.6" W x 7.375" H (4.1 cm x 18.7 cm); size (frame): 10.2" W x 12.5" H (25.9 cm x 31.8 cm).
Provenance: private California, USA collection; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York, USA, 2000s
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Condition
All textile items are fragments of larger items. Wood dolls have nicks to peripheries and fading to pigmentation, otherwise intact. Wood needles have losses to handle ends. Textile items have fraying and light losses to some areas, with fading and light staining to original pigmentation.