Standing male funeral guardian figure with articulated arms

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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

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Littérature comparée

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.

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