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Vintage Peruvian Burial Doll Ancient Chancay Textiles w/ Chimu Copper Artifact
$ 16.34
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From a Tucson, Arizona collector's estate:Vintage Folk Art Peruvian Burial Doll made with ancient Chancay textile fragments and a genuine copper artifact.
Chancay is a pre-Incan, pre-Columbian culture that thrived on the coast of Perú from about 1,000 to 1,400 A D. Among the artifacts often found in Chancay sites were cloth dolls. The
huaqueros
or pot hunters would often leave behind a lot of fragments of actual ancient weavings. Local artisans began to gather these fragments to "dress" modern-made dolls for sale to tourists.
This doll comes out of an estate I am working on. As I looked at "burial" dolls for sale on Ebay, I realized that many of them don't even bother to use actual pre-Columbian fragments anymore since they're probably getting harder to find. And there are a lot of listings asking astronomical prices with false claims of "antiquity". Once again, this is a modern-made doll using ancient textile fragments.
I'm going to share some info about the cloths used to make this doll, in hopes that you'll buy my listing.
If you're a collector (as I am) it's good to know what you have.
One fabric that I'm not certain of is the green and brown banded cloth with diamonds that covers most of the lower part of the doll. It could be ancient Chancay but it could also be a piece of very old Aymara or Quechuan Indian textile. Aymara and Quechua are the two main tribal groups found today in Peru. They weave the same designs, using the same materials on the same backstrap looms as their prehistoric ancestors! If the cloth isn't ancient it's still many decades old.
The net-like material along the head and back is an example of a very unique pre-Columbian technique called "gauze weaving". Incredibly fine and difficult to weave. Google "gauze weavings" to see entire pieces. Very cool.
The pieces with red,and mustard yellow are classic Chancay fragments as is the band around the doll's chest.
The doll measures 9 inches in height.
From the same collection, I've included a piece of Pre-Columbian copper. Very oxidized (as you would expect after 800-1000 years or so) this is a broken off piece of a knife, called a
tumi
which was a ceremonial blade found in many pre-Incan cultures (Chimu, Chancay, and Moche).
Shipping is .95 to U.S. addresses (lower 48 states only).
Please examine all of the photos carefully and ask any questions before bidding.
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