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THBRare Paracas Textile Border with Hummingbirds
Lot 79
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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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By Artemis Gallery
Jan 10, 2019
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Paracas, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A gorgeous textile border strip composed of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in hues of crimson, lime, emerald, gold, wheat, sapphire, teal, amethyst, espresso, and citrine. The center of the panel depicts a series of eight right-facing hummingbirds, each highly-detailed with feathered wings, slender bodies, wide ovoid tails, and circular eyes, all set against a red ground. The upper periphery is comprised of individual threads in groups of three non-red colors interspersed with red, and the bottom periphery is denoted with colorful hanging tabs. Mounted against a fabric-lined wooden frame. Size (textile): 14.75" W x 1.625" H (37.5 cm x 4.1 cm); size (frame): 18" W x 8" H (45.7 cm x 20.3 cm).
From the Paracas period to the Proto-Nazca, artwork was dominated by representations of avian forms - often including hummingbirds. Peru is home to 127 different known species of hummingbirds. What people during this time period thought of the animals is not clear - in Mesoamerica, they were associated with war and seen as ferocious, while in the Amazon they were associated with medicine because of their long, probing beaks being similar to the process by which "spirit darts" were taken from the sick and wounded.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private H. J. Westermann collection, Germany, acquired between 1960 and 1970
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#136653Light fraying to interior fibers along left side, some repairs to tabs along bottom periphery, and some fading to coloration.Condition
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