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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

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