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THBNear-Miniature Chavin Anthracite Mortar Jaguar Form
Lot 103c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. A fantastic object, charming and delightful, a mortar for grinding hallucinogenic drugs used in ritual in the form of a standing jaguar, all smoothly carved from a lustrous, black anthracite stone. The facial features of the ancient feline are exaggerated, with pointed ears, huge, bulging eyes, a square snout, a rounded nose, and a sizeable, open mouth. He stands upon 4 paws with delineated toes displaying the shallow basin of the mortar on his broad back, as a slender tail droops from his posterior. Size: 3.5" L x 1.9" W x 2.6" H (8.9 cm x 4.8 cm x 6.6 cm)
The Chavin lived in the northern Highland Andes, and their capital, Chavin de Huantar, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the center of Chavin de Huantar is a massive, flat-topped pyramid, surrounded by lower platforms. Between 1200 and 500 BCE the pyramid space was used for religious ceremonies. The Old Temple, constructed very early in the history of the site, consists of a series of passageways built around a circular courtyard; within were carved stone monuments showing jaguars, serpents, and other figures with transformative and/or anthropomorphic figures. At the very center is a towering stone stela depicting an anthropomorphic figure with a jaguar head, a human body, and eyebrows and hair made of snakes. This is Lanzon, the chief deity of Chavin. Researchers believe that worshippers ingested hallucinogenic drugs, prepared using mortars like this one, and then were led in the dark through the labyrinthine passageways before entering the central courtyard and coming abruptly face-to-face with the snarling features of the god.
Research shows that Chavin people ingested hallucinogenic drugs made from cactus in ritualistic ceremonies and such containers may have symbolically held the appropriate amount to ingest. The jaguar was a supernatural being throughout pre-Columbian cultures, and an important cult deity in Chavin religion, famously depicted in the Lanzon stela as anthropomorphic and zoomorphic mix of snake, human, and jaguar.
Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010
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#172988Surface wear as shown with nicks and abrasions commensurate with age. Otherwise, intact and excellent with impressive remaining detail and great form.Condition
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