Zemanek-Münster

Standing female figure

South America, Inca
sold EUR 300
Provenance
Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart, Germany
Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch

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.


Publications

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

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