Description:

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay & Inca culture, ca. 1100 to 1500 CE. A fine pair of weaving tools: a deer antler awl and a wooden spatulate shaped batten or beater stick. The antler is heavily polished with an anthropomorphic head carved into the finial end, used like an awl or pick for weaving; the tip is completely smoothed to prevent snagging fibers. The beater has a lanceolate blade like shape with a rounded tip and an abstract finial, this tool would push the weft threads together to ensure a tightly woven textile. Size (wood beater): 11.6" L x 1.125" W (29.5 cm x 2.9 cm)

Provenance: private Plano, Texas, USA collection, inherited from father in the 1990s

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#171941

  • Condition: Antler repaired, visible adhesive residue. Old losses to both knobs above finial head. Tip is heavily polished form use. The wood beater has an old loss to finial as show and stable fissures and pin hole cavities from old insect activity. Nice patina on both.

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