Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A beautiful bone tray likely carved from camelid bone for preparing hallucinogenic drugs or as a scoop tool, its upper end decorated with bird finial. The cylindrical bone is hollowed out to create the area for preparing hallucinogenic drugs to be used in rituals. The joint area is transformed into a large jungle bird such as a parrot or toucan with incised crosshatched patterning infilled with a thick black pigment. A piercing through the upper beak could serve as a suspension loop or for attaching additional ornaments. Size: 13.65" L x 1.75" W (34.7 cm x 4.4 cm); 10.5" H (26.7 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: ex-Arte Primitivo, Auction 104, December 13, 2021, part of lot 192; ex-Arte Textile, San Francisco, California, USA, in the 1980s

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#169926

  • Condition: Chip and loss to rim of tray areas near the narrow tip. Minor nicks and chips to high pointed areas and natural ossification of bone. Some losses and fading to black pigments and missing eye inlay to one side on bird.

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