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Place of Origin: Peruvian
Pre-Columbian Nazca Polychrome Bowl South American art
Located in London, GB
Pre-Columbian Nazca Polychrome Bowl
South Coast Peru, Nazca Culture, c. 200–600 AD
A fine hand-coiled pottery bowl decorated in classic Nazca polychrome pigments—cream, black, red,...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Spanish Colonial South American Painting Virgin folk art 18th C
Located in London, GB
A Spanish colonial South American folk art style painting of the Virgin and child
South American Peru or Bolivia school 18th century or earlier
Oil on canvas, framed size 40 x ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Native American Indian Large Shipibo-Conibo Peruvian Amazon Pottery Jar Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful geometric patterned and designed hand painted and glazed Native American large earthenware jar/vase/pot made by the Shipibo-Conibo people, an indigenous people along the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery, Paint
Gemstone sphere incense holder- serpentine green
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
A piece with soul: green serpentine incense holder, artisanally carved.
Create a sacred space with this green serpentine incense holder, hand-carved with stone carpentry techniques ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Gemstone Brick Phonestand - Creamy Soapstone
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Nothing generic: creamy soapstone phone stand. Aesthetic with presence.
We’ve brought a playful classic to the desktop. As we perfect the video call, we'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Multi-gemstone
$149 / item
Pre-Columbian Chimu Avian vessel ancient south America Circa 10 -15th century AD
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Chimu grey ware bottle type vessel of a armadillo emerging from a pumpkin or gourd with a small baby armadillo on the upper side under the spout and a plaited stirrup...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian INCA / Early Colonial period Wood Kero
A superb Inca Kero carved and painted in a mosaic style with Avian floral and animal designs
Height...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Large Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Large Pre Columbian INCA / Early Colonial period Wood Kero
A superb Large Inca Kero cup profusely carved in the mosaic style with a image of the Inca or...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$754 Sale Price
35% Off
Gemstone sphere incense holder - celestina
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Handmade and full of purpose: celestine incense holder brings harmony to your spiritual space.
Your favorite incense is grounded within the smooth sphere of Peruvian Angelite stone,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Silver-Mounted gaucho spurs – South American Colonial Arts decorative antiques
Located in London, GB
A Fine Old Pair of Gaucho Spurs, Argentina
A well-made traditional pair of Argentine Gaucho spurs, crafted in brass with silver plating and highlighted with decorative silver inlays....
Category
19th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Silver, Brass
Pre Columbian Rare Lambayeque Wood Figure
Located in London, GB
Pre columbian Lamabayeque wood figure Peru Circa 750 to 1375 AD
A rare standing figure of a deity with triangular tear drop shaped eyes holding a child,
Carved in very dense heavy hard wood
Measures: Height 14 inches, 36 cm weight, 1.5 kg approx
Ex collection of a Oxford Academic, reputed to have came from Pit rivers...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Inca double chambered whistle vessel South Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Inca double chambered whistle Vessel Circa 15- 16th Century Ad
A fine Inca greyware vessel double chambered with a bird whistle on ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Large Chancay Cuchimilco Urn South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Large Chancay Anthropomorphic Urn Vessel
Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru 1000–1450 CE
An imposing and characterful Chancay culture ceramic urn, fashioned in the form of a sty...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Andean Peruvian Fine Large Manta Cloth South American Textiles Decor
Located in London, GB
Vintage Andean Peruvian Manta Cloth South American Vintage Textiles.
A very fine Vintage Manta cloth from the High Andes region of Peru Woven in came-lid fibre (Llama wool )beautiful...
Category
1960s Vintage Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Peru Pre-Inca 900 / 1470 AD Chimu Pre Columbian Vessel In Earthenware Pottery
Located in Miami, FL
A pre-Inca Chimu culture, pre Columbian vase in earth ware.
This beautiful little vessel vase, was created in the northern Peruvian region by the Chimu culture between the 900 / 1...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Pre-Columbian Nasca Ceramic Drum Vessel South American art
Located in London, GB
Rare Pre-Columbian Nasca Ceramic Drum Vessel
Culture: Nasca (Nazca), South Coast of Peru
Period: ca. 200–600 CE (Early Intermediate Period)
Material: Burnished ceramic with painted ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Gemstone sphere incense holder Black Onyx
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
A piece with soul: green serpentine incense holder, artisanally carved.
Create a sacred space with this green serpentine incense holder, hand-carved with stone carpentry techniques ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Americas Earliest Known Pyrography Vessel 400AD
Located in South Burlington, VT
World's earliest known pyrography vessel, Nazca Culture , circa 400 AD
This unique work of art is a hand-incised half gourd using an early pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned techn...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Burr 3D gemstone puzzle in Black Onyx
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Feel texture, weight, and form with this onyx puzzle: design you can experience.
The burr puzzle is of mysterious origin, first seen engraved on the cover of Chambers's Cyclopaedia....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
$189 / item
Peru Pre Inca 100-700 Ad Moche Pre Columbian Personified Vessel in Earthenware
Located in Miami, FL
Rare pre Hispanic Moche culture, pre-Inca earthenware vessel.
A beautiful interesting piece, created in the southern Peru region around the 100-700 AD by the Moche culture. This rare early period...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
$1,880 Sale Price
20% Off
United Baskets by RF Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
United baskets by RF Studio
Unique Piece
Dimensions: D 300 x H 310 cm
Materials: Reed
United Baskets explores the process of landscape transformation and the persistence of local cr...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Reed
$23,754 / item
Spanish Colonial Carved Polychrome Wood Panel 18th Century
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Spanish Colonial Religious Wood Panel, Polychromed. Panel features a kneeling saint (or possibly Christ) in prayer as an angel appears from the heavens bearing a chalice...
Category
18th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Manuel Sandoval Valez Latin American Figurative Ceramic Sculpture of a Newsboy
Located in Miami, FL
Manuel Sandoval Valez Latin American figurative Ceramic sculpture of a newsboy
Offered for sale is a folk art-style terracotta ceramic sculpture of a newsboy by Manuel Sandoval Va...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
$125 Sale Price
28% Off
Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca Unku in vibrant red with blue, green, yellow and white squares forming V design around the brown neck opening. The multicolor squares in stepped design make a diamond ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Brick Puzzle Phone Stand Holder - Serpentine Green
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Organize artfully: this serpentine puzzle stone phone stand is practical, sturdy, and decorative.
We’ve brought a playful classic to the desktop. As we p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Multi-gemstone
Gemstone sphere incense holder - Onyx Crema
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Free yourself from plastic: this cream onyx incense holder reconnects with the essential.
Create a sacred space with this creamy onyx incense holder, hand-carved with stone carpentr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Pre-Columbian Inca Mantle with 16 Figures, Peru, 1476-1534 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Inca Mantle with 16 figures in cubist form with multi-color fringes.
This pieces with a Certificat de Bien Culturel from France.
For the Incas finely worked and highly decorativ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Framed Pre-Colombian Peruvian Textile, 900 to 1470 AD
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Peruvian Pre-Colombian (Chancay) textile panel of camelid wool embroidered on cotton with three birds, each holding a lizard in its beak.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Pre-Columbian Rare Gold Veraguas/Diquis Supernatural Drummer Pink Tourmaline
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Natural pink tourmaline necklace (167 gms) with rare gold Veraguas/Diquis supernatural drummer. Very fine example of ancient, Precolumbian goldwork form Central America, either Costa Rica or Panama. 111 grams of blush pink gold made with “lost wax” technique. The music he plays is not for entertainment, but rather to create magic, casting a spell or summoning other supernatural beings. Healing was the most important function of shamans, both the mortal and the immortal kind. Such a magical pendant...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Gold
Vintage Peruvian Folk Art Framed Negreria Dance Cape
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce framed fragment of "Negreria" dance cape, circa 1940s, Huayucachi, Junin, Peru.
Dating to the mid-20th century, the rare large size South ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Sequins
Pre-Columbian Cupisnique Stirrup Vessel from Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pre-Columbian ceramic stirrup vessel in Cupisnique style circa 700-500BCE. This ancient vessel features a robust squatted body and a short thick stirr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chimu brown gauze shirt with multiple red and white fringe lines forming V designs like the one around the neck, with very rarely seen sleeves and border fringe in the same material.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Vibrant Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho, Peru 200-600 AD, Ex Guillot-muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho with a Geometric Step Design in Vibrant Ochre, Red, Green and Brown colors with its Original Fringes. Moun...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Antique South American Spanish Colonial Folk Art Madonna Santos Figure
Located in London, GB
Spanish Colonial Madonna and Child
Peru or Bolivia, late 18th – early 19th century
A finely carved Andean polychrome wood figure of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin shown in a chara...
Category
18th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Wood
9th Century Silver Processional Priest's Hats, Chimu Culture, Peru
Located in Point Richmond, CA
9th century silver processional priest's hats, Chimu culture, Peru.
These silver hats were originally covered with fabric, as can be seen in the remaining surface pattern. The hol...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive pre-columbian Lambayeque textile ceremonial panel. Lambayeque, Peru. Mint condition. Museum piece. Ex. Sotheby’s, New York.
The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicán) flou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Rare Pre-Columbian Inca Silver Mask with Gold Sequins
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A rare, sheet silver human face mask with simple relief facial features including large, almond shaped eyes and downturned mouth. Classic stepped pyramid headdress with round, very t...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Moche Copper Bronze Mask
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large coper mask of a dignitary with almond shaped, inset shell eyes with pupils and a wide brim type crown. Attached at the brow line, a row of danglers is suspended, aligning the...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Copper
$18,750
Collection of Two Pre-Columbian Cupisnique Stirrup Ceramic Vessels Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A collection of two small pre-Columbian ceramic stirrup vessels in Cupisnique style circa 700-500BCE. These ancient vessels from the formative period are distinct in a robust form wi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask South American Art Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask South American Art Antiques
A Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask, originating from the central coast of Peru and dating to approximately 1000–1450...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Prehistoric South American Moche Red Ware Vessel
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Moche Red Ware pottery vessel with copulating motif. Horizon of Peru, Circa 450 - 550 CE. 9” x 5” x 7 ½”. Ex. Hank Johnson Collection. Hank Johnson was a geologist, and passionate collector of historical and ancient artifacts. Starting with relics and bottles from ghost towns, he later focused on Anasazi pottery...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Box with a corrugated, embossed, polychrome wooden core Colonial work Perú
Located in Madrid, España
Box with a corrugated, embossed, polychrome wooden core and leaf decoration. Iron lock and hinges with key, the interior lined with a marbled effect. Colonial work from the Viceroyal...
Category
Mid-17th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
South American Cowhide & Leather Trunk
Located in Queens, NY
South American Colonial (Peruvian 19th Cent) cowhide and leather floor trunk (Bataca) with a geometric strap design.
Category
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Cowhide, Leather
early 20th Century Set of Four Peruvian Carved Gourds
Located in Haarlem, NL
Set of four antique carved gourds from Peru, three little ones with silver settings and decorations and a large carved gourd.
A Gourd is a crop plant in...
Category
Early 20th Century Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,760 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique South American Spanish Colonial Folk Art Santos Figural Group
Located in London, GB
Antique South American Spanish Colonial Poly chrome Folk Art Santos figure The finely sculptured hard wood figure standing with a cross and bible on a pedestal base, painted in p...
Category
18th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Framed Pre-Columbian Proto Nazca Textile Frangment
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Proto-Nazca textile fragment from Southern Peru circa 100BC-200AD. The linked munecas ("dolls" in Spanish) figures were woven with fibers likely from l...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool
17th Century, Peruvian Huamanga Stone
Located in Mexico City, MX
It is a beautiful carved stone known as Huamanga stone, endemic of the Zone of Ayacucho, Viceroyalty of Peru. With a refined regional touch and loaded of pre-Columbian flavor as Chinese, It represents the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus with God Father...
Category
17th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful Pre-columbian Mantle with a Central Kilim Type Tapisserie of Multicolor Designs with Priests Upraising their Arms Toward the Skies. It is surrounded by 2 Long Red Plain Cot...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Chancay Canteen Vessel South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Rare Pre-Columbian Chancay Vessel – Peru, C 1000-1450 AD
A Rare Pre-Columbian Chancay canteen type vessel, ovoid with a slim flat bottom, pottery with cream slip painted with re...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Abstract Geometric Checkerboard Pre-Columbian Early Nazca Textile - 100-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Bold color and dramatic design make this style a favorite among collectors of modern art. Excellent condition. Several minor holes are effectively backed with a compatible color, and...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Inca Complete Uncu Textile, Peru 1300-1500 AD, Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Inca Complete Uncu of beautiful geometric composition with serpent form in red, purple and yellow. This beautiful poncho of a geometric composition has only some worn out sections on...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Warrior Banner, Chimu, Peru, circa 1100-1476 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian ornamental banner with fringes composed of warriors/divinities holding figures in their hands, surrounded by geometric frets. Two-headed birds in alternating colors decorate the top and bottom of the banner. This one-of-a-kind tapestry has preserved its vibrant original colors and fibres. Professionally cleaned.
Provenance: Private European Collection
Textiles from elite Chimu tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre sculptures. Among others, shades of yellow and brown, scarlet, white, lavender-blue and olive green were the colors used. Birds and a deity wearing a crescent-like headdress have been the most popular decorative motifs.
Many Chimu textiles...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Vivid Huari Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian textile fragment with wave like patterns woven in bright colors. Framed in a black shadow box.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts - so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Stirrup Vessel – Sea Plant or Fungi Motif
Located in London, GB
Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Stirrup Vessel – Sea Plant or Fungi Motif – 12th–14th Century AD, Peru
An intriguing and rare Chimu stirrup vessel from Pre-Columbian Peru, dating to the 12...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$569 Sale Price
40% Off
Pre-Columbian Ica Fringed Textile Panel, Ex Kate Kemper, Peru 800 to 1200 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A semi-ovoid rectangular panel with heavily fringed border having a very tightly woven multi-color geometric pattern consisting of two scroll devices containing multiple stylized zoo...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Chancay Textile, Cubist Animals, Peru 1100-1400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Pre-Columbian multi-color Chancay textile with animal figures in cubist form.
The Chancay are known more for their textiles than for their ceramics. Textiles from elite Chancay tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Chimu Gold Mask With Scar
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large sheet gold mask depicting a stylized human face having an individually fashioned and applied nose. Large low relief repousse eyes and rectangular mou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Gold
Moche Red Ware Pottery Vessel
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Moche Red Ware Pottery Vessel with man figure. Moche Horizon of Peru, Circa 450 - 550 CE. In overall good condition, some chipping around the mouth of the narrow spout, and there’s a small spiderweb push on the back of the jar that appears to have resulted from a probe that penetrated the left side just below the figure (two small holes, one on the front upper left corner of the throne, and the other just around to the side, have been repaired). 6” x 4” x 6”. Ex. Hank Johnson Collection.
Hank Johnson was a geologist, and passionate collector of historical and ancient artifacts. Starting with relics and bottles from ghost towns, he later focused on Anasazi pottery...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Abstract Paracas Precolumbian Textile, Peru, 1100-1400 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones pre-Columbian textile fragment with abstract embroidered figures. This piece is framed in a black shadowbox.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Masterpiece Complete Chimu Shirt with Feathered Motif
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
An intact shirt with motif of rows of feathers in several shades of mustard yellow on a red ground, depicted as they would have been attached in rows in an actual feather textile.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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