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THBPre-Columbian Sican / Chimu Textile w/ Spider Oracles
Lot 102
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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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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, late Sican/Lambayeque to early Chimu, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. A beautiful textile of draped ovoid panels comprised of tightly woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in hues of crimson, cream, wheat, periwinkle, and maroon. Within each of the twenty-three panels is an abstract oracle spider with a hairy abdomen, slender legs, and a petite circular head surrounded by several additional pincered arms. The tops of the panels are connected via a narrow rectangular strip with tufts of red and beige fabric. Mounted atop a museum-quality display fabric. Size (textile): 69" L x 5.75" W (175.3 cm x 14.6 cm); (display fabric): 83" L x 22.25" W (210.8 cm x 56.5 cm).
Many forms of divination existed among the ancients of Peru, with prognostication instruments ranging from small stones to leaves, bones, and intestines, and small animals like snakes and spiders. During rituals of spider divination, according to independent researcher and art curator Vanessa Drake Moraga, "diviners either kept or trapped large 'hairy' spiders to consult for omens. The spiders were case onto a special ceremonial cloth, and their legs were examined for unusual breaks and positions." (Moraga, Vanessa Drake. "Animal Myth and Magic: Images from Pre-Columbian Textiles." OLOLO Press, Larkspur, California, 2005, p. 158).
Provenance: ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected in 1950 to the 1960s
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#150524Minor fraying and loosening to some fibers, with light staining and fading to original pigmentation. Arachnid iconography is still visible and clear.Condition
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