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70<br />

*99<br />

TWO PROTO-NAZCA<br />

BORDER FRAGMENTS<br />

Ca. 400-100 B. C.<br />

Probably borders from mantles woven in camelid<br />

wool in tubular knit stem stitch with highly<br />

stylized anthropomorphic fi gures and tabs with<br />

geometric motifs as fringe in alternating colors, in<br />

shades of blue and green, pink, red, ocher, white<br />

and dark brown.<br />

Lengths 195 x 128 cm<br />

See illustration of one<br />

€ 700 – 1 000<br />

*100<br />

RARE NAZCA TEXTILE FRAGMENT<br />

Ca. A. D. 300-600<br />

The double-faced textile with colors alternating<br />

on each side, with three stylized shamanic fi gures,<br />

each fl anked by a smaller anthropomorphic<br />

fi gure, holding a stylized fi sh within a basket (?),<br />

monkeys and birds in the fi eld, the priest fi gure<br />

attired in a patterned tunic and turban, woven in<br />

camelid wool in shaded olive green and pink.<br />

15 x 32 cm<br />

€ 750 – 950

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