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THBSican / Chimu Textile Appliques - Oracle Spiders
Lot 66a
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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, North Coast Peru, late Sican (Lambayeque) to early Chimu, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. A lovely gathering of six textile appliques comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in hues of crimson, fuchsia, wheat, periwinkle, chocolate, tan, and pearl. Each applique depicts an abstract arachnid with an ovoid sternum, a small head, sinuous legs, and a rounded abdomen, the back legs of which appear to be grasping a frilled object of some indiscernible type. The ancients of Peru utilized spiders as insectile soothsayers - hence the name "oracle spiders" - by letting them scurry across ceremonial textiles so shamans could interpret their movements and divine the future. Mounted atop a heavy fabric backing. Size (appliques - all are relatively similar): 2.75" W x 5.375" H (7 cm x 13.7 cm); size (backing): 32" W x 20.5" H (81.3 cm x 52.1 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 cast onto a special ceremonial cloth, and their legs were examined for unusual breaks and positions" (Animal Myth and Magic: Images from Pre-Columbian Textiles. OLOLO Press, Larkspur, California, 2005, p. 158).
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private H. J. Westermann collection, Germany
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#138956Appliques have some loosening and fraying to interior and peripheral threads, light staining and fading to coloration, and some small losses to peripheral threads.Condition
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