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LAMBAYEQUE HEAD<br />
Ca. A. D. 900-1100<br />
Possibly a fi nial, with a hollow neck, exhibiting the classic attributes<br />
of the Sican Lord, with a trapezoidal face, large comma-shaped eyes<br />
and lips parted, his cheeks with facial paint, adorned with a crescentic<br />
headdress adorned with an inward-curved moon crescent as emblem,<br />
painted in brown with decorative details in white and black.<br />
Height 18 cm<br />
Provenance<br />
Hotel Drouot, December 7, 1959, lot 31<br />
Cf. Das Inca Reich, fi g. 40; Sackler, fi g. 69<br />
There is oral history, from Spanish chronicler Miguel Cabello de<br />
Valboa in 1586 that the Lambayeque valley was invaded long ago<br />
by a warrior named Naymlap or Yamlap, possibly identifi ed and generically<br />
portrayed as the Lord of Sican, who came on a fl eet of balsa<br />
wood rafts with his wife Ceterni and lots of other folk, including servants<br />
and 40 offi cials. He set up his capital with a palace called Chot<br />
and apparently founded a dynasty. Yamlap it seems had a harem<br />
and diff erent offi cials in charge of such duties as the litter and throne<br />
bearing, the road system, facial painting, weavings, and musicians for<br />
the shell trumpets. Another offi cial had Spondylus shells crushed into<br />
dust for him to walk on.<br />
€ 3 000 – 5 000