Pair of Chancay Wooden Loom Sticks - Bird & Flutist
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Pre-Columbian, Chancay, modern day Peru, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A pair of wooden loom sticks, well-preserved for their material and age! One is topped by a figure of a flute player wearing a headdress with a feather projecting from its center, the other by a parrot-like bird shown in profile. Both have openwork motifs - the legs of the flute player are separated, while the bird perches atop an open box with a cross inside of it. The bird has a shell bead remaining in one of its eyes; its other eye and those of the flute player presumably both had beads as well. Both were integral to the running of a loom, and were used to create the textiles for which the Chancay are so famous. Size of flute player (they are similar in size): 1.8" W x 14.25" H (4.6 cm x 36.2 cm); 14.75" H (37.5 cm) on included custom stand.
Provenance: private Washington, D.C., USA collection
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Provenance: private Washington, D.C., USA collection
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#131143
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Both have blunted tips, with expected surface wear and patina, but are in nice condition for their age and material.
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Pair of Chancay Wooden Loom Sticks - Bird & Flutist
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