Standing male funeral guardian figure with articulated arms ·  Peru, Chancay · ID: 3038650

Description

light weighted wood (balsa tree?), separate carved arms attached by cord, the face painted in red (haematite), wearing net turban and woven geometric pattern textile headband, brown cotton poncho around shoulders, inset shell eyes with brown pottery pupils, some old dormant insect loss around his jaw and neck, fine cracks, base

The object Standing male funeral guardian figure with articulated arms with the object ID 3038650 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 135 achieved a sales price of EUR 750.

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Comparing literature

Hoffmann, Ulrich, Faszination Alt-Amerika, Stuttgart 2002, p. 134 Purini, Sergio & André Emmerich, La sculpture en bois dans l'ancien Pérou, Paris 2006, p. 166 f.