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"Mummy bundle" head or "false head", c. 1100 - 1400 AD, Peru, Chancay, Size: H: 31 cm (H: 12.2 inch), ID: 3050221
"Mummy bundle" head or "false head", c. 1100 - 1400 AD, Peru, Chancay, Size: H: 31 cm (H: 12.2 inch), ID: 3050221 - 2/4 "Mummy bundle" head or "false head", c. 1100 - 1400 AD, Peru, Chancay, Size: H: 31 cm (H: 12.2 inch), ID: 3050221 - 3/4 "Mummy bundle" head or "false head", c. 1100 - 1400 AD, Peru, Chancay, Size: H: 31 cm (H: 12.2 inch), ID: 3050221 - 4/4
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3050221
Open sale

"Mummy bundle" head or "false head", c. 1100 - 1400 AD ·  Peru, Chancay · ID: 3050221

Price EUR 500
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Provenance
Gerhard Asche (1933-2022), Billigheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (vor 1968)
Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch

Description

cotton, wood, terracotta, camelid fibres (alpaca or llama),

Pillow-shaped textile cover stuffed with straw and raw cotton, with applied facial features in wood and terracotta, and hand-woven headband.

The object “Mummy bundle” head or “false head”, c. 1100 - 1400 AD with the object ID 3050221 was part of the auction Online Auction on September 27, 2023, lot number 94 at that time and is currently available for EUR 500 in Open sale.

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Comparing literature

Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 134 ff.

Notices

This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).

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