Standing female figure ·  South America, Inca · ID: 3037345

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Description

light wood, middle brown patina, flat armless body, a proportionally large head with projecting nose, eyes and mouth marked by incisions, minor missing parts, traces of old age and weathering, base;
the accentuated sexual characteristics shall refer to the renewable forces of the big mother, the goddess of earth. The figurines often were clothed and their faces painted in red; the colour red is regarded as colour of life.

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Publications

Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 103 (131)

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