Description:

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Proto Nazca, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A beautiful textile panel fragment comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in a palette of rainbow hues. The rectangular body is dyed a deep blue hue and has an upper fringe panel of muneca (Spanish for "doll") figures above. The figures consist of a lower panel of multiple polychrome legs with a thick midsection onto which a set of 23 heads and upper bodies are sewn. The expressive faces beneath the wild serpentine hair are characteristic of typical Proto Nazca munecas. A fabulous example of early Peruvian textile artistry! Mounted within a fabric-lined frame. Size (textile): 20.5" W x 10.5" H (52.1 cm x 26.7 cm); size (frame): 26.3" W x 16.2" H (66.8 cm x 41.1 cm).

Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s

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  • Condition: Light fraying to peripheral and muneca fibers, with light fading and staining to pigmentation. Otherwise very good.

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