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HUARMEY TEXTILE FRAGMENT
Ca. A. D. 200-600
Possibly from a tunic woven in camelid fi ber in deep red, teal blue,
ocher, dark brown and white with a highly abstract central anthropomorphic
fi gure with wide spread, bent legs with body treated in
x-ray style, fi lled with geometric patterns, hands as serpents heads
and grasping diminutive winged warriors, the elongated horizontal
helmet decorated with similar serpents’ heads and fl anked by further
small warriors, and surrounded by a border of stylized avian wings;
damaged.
Ca. 32 x 44 cm
€ 1 200 – 1 800
*53
HUARMEY TEXTILE
Ca. A. D. 200-600
Possibly part of a tunic, woven in camelid fi ber in slit tapestry with
four anthropomorphic fi gures, each holding a staff with a zoomorphic
head, serpent and animal heads issuing from the top of the
head and back, the whole surrounded by stepped motifs on all four
sides in shades of red, ocher, live green, blue, dark brown and white.
29 x 28.3 cm
€ 1 200 – 1 800