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THBParacas Textile Fragment - Flying Shamans
Lot 167
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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, South Coast Peru, Paracas, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A beautiful fragmentary textile swath comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in hues of scarlet, emerald, citrine, teal, cobalt, wheat, and chocolate. The textile features eleven abstract shamanic figures with both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features. Each body faces to the right with bent legs, wavy staffs held in extended arms, and sinuous bodies curling downwards to thick, upturned tails. The heads of each figure bear large, discoid eyes, X-shaped noses, smiling mouths, and large ears which droop and curve. The abstract motif is sewn within a beige-hued fabric matrix, indicating that this was once part of a larger textile garb or perhaps a satchel strap. Mounted atop a fabric-lined wooden frame. Size (textile): 18.625" W x 2" H (47.3 cm x 5.1 cm); size (frame): 21.25" W x 4.5" H (54 cm x 11.4 cm).
Little is known about the Paracas people, and what little we do know comes from a 1920s archaeological excavation of the Paracas Cavernas, shaft tombs containing multiple burials, many of which contained ceramic vessels, probably for holding offerings or provisioning the dead in the afterlife. The iconography of the Paracas people is linear and stylistic, based on formal figures whose species, when zoomorphic, often cannot be identified. Motifs on their textiles mirror those of their ceramics that they used to wrap their dead and probably represent gods or mythical figures of power.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; purportedly ex-Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, New York, USA
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#136655Minor fraying to interior and peripheral threads, some fading and staining to coloration, and light roughness across surface.Condition
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