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*146<br />

HUARI-TIHUANACO WOOD<br />

MUMMY MASK<br />

Ca. A. D. 600-1000<br />

Of deep section, distinguished by the jutting<br />

jaw and compressed lips, large recessed<br />

eyes inlaid in clam and mussel shell (one<br />

eye lacking) and surrounded by hair lashes,<br />

the whole painted in carmine red with<br />

remains of blue feathers on the cheek.<br />

Height 36 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1950<br />

Exhibited<br />

Zurich, Alt-Peru aus Schweizer Sammlungen,<br />

Kunsthaus Zurich, April 18-June 2, 1957, pl.<br />

9, no. 441 (not illustrated)<br />

Literature<br />

Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,<br />

Leipzig, 1962, pl. 119<br />

Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,<br />

Leipzig, 1972, pl. 202<br />

€ 2 000 – 4 000<br />

145<br />

93

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