Chimu Shamans Textile

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #739614
CH414

An excellent Chimu textile panel from Peru, ca. 1100 – 1450 AD. It is 16-1/2” long, 5-3/4” wide and depicts a series of seven shamans, interspersed with anthropomorphic beings. The tumi form headdresses indicate that this scene takes place in the spirit realm. Nice colors, beautifully framed, ready to hang.

See Stone-Miller “To Weave for the Sun”, pages 166 & 250, for similar from Boston’s MFA.

Very nice Pre-Columbian Lot - Necklace and Needle

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre AD 1000: item #736486
PC-12308g

This is a very interesting lot. Consists of a necklace made of tiny shells, each drilled by hand in ancient times and strung on a string, as seen. The needle is some type of very hard wood. Used in ancient times for sewing. Polish evident, and a choice, intact example with it's original thread in-situ.

The necklace measures 44 cm in length, and would do well to be restrung professionally, and the needle measures 9 cm i... Click for details

Very Nice Pre-Columbian Lot - 2 spindles and Peanut

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #736480
PC-12308f

This is a nice lot of collectible ancient Peruvian pieces. The lot consists of two ancient weaver's spindles with ancient thread intact, and a peanut amulet made of pottery, with hole for suspension, through which an ancient string has been strung.

The spindles are Chancay, circa 1200 AD and the peanut is Moche, circa 400 AD.

The spindles measu... Click for details

Peru, Chancay. Large textile strip

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #734353
CHA05

CHA05. Large textile strip, cotton or wool, Chancay, central coast of Peru, 900 AD / 1450 AD, Late Intermediate, H = 62 cm, l = 8 cm, good condition. Brown,white and beige textile'strip. Two friezes with white birds frame one big frieze with geometric patterns, alternating beige and brown patterns. Very beautiful ans well-balanced composition.

TIAHUANACAN BASKET FROM BOLIVIAN HIGHLANDS

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #727876
LFG.458

Decorated with dark brown, almost black wraps of grass spaced geometrically along its rim and in its body, this old highlands basket (LFG458) is attributed to the Tiahuanacan cultural period of Bolivia, c.400-1200AD. In overall good condition, though darkened and slightly out-of-round due to desiccation and age, a few areas along the rim of the 7” long basket have lost the grass loops exposing the bundled fiber coil. In addition to a few small areas along the sides of the basket where similar lo... Click for details

BRACELET OF INLAID SHELL BEADS, VIRU VALLEY

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #726669
LFG.299

This 8 ½” long bracelet-like length (LFG299) was assembled from Pre-Columbian inlaid mother-of-pearl zoomorphic beads and spondylous shell discoidal beads, all found in the Viru Valley of northwestern Peru, the site of cultural development dating back into at least the 2nd millennium BC. Originally purchased in the 1950s in Lima, Peru from the Museo Oralandini and noted as item #33 on one of several pages copied from the museum’s catalog, the bracelet is now on consignment and owned by a former ... Click for details

ANOTHER INTERESTING ORLANDINI MUSEUM NECKLACE

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #726668
LFG.249

From the same consigned collection that our other Orlandini Museum pieces are from, this interesting Pre-Columbian necklace (LFG249) was assembled from many @ 3mm long fired clay tube beads, ten individually hand modeled anthropomorphic figural clay bead-pendants, and a 1 ¾” long, slightly tapered and nicely preserved mother-of-pearl central pendant. All in excellent condition, but not wearable without restringing due to the age of the beading string (50 years + or -), the figural beads are repr... Click for details

NECKLACE OF SILVER, SPONDYLOUS AND BONE BEADS

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #726666
LFG.468

Once featured in the 1950s Museo Orlandini located in Lima, Peru (owned and operated by the late “Antonio E. Orlandini J”), this 26” long Pre-Columbian bead necklace (LFG 468) is made up of 20 half-inch square-cut and perforated bone spacer beads along with at least 36 dozen (440+) spondylous shell disk beads and silver beads. The silver beads average 2mm in length and each was individually made by rolling end to end, without soldering, a tiny strip of thinly hammered plate. Listed as item #39 i... Click for details

Very Finest Woven Inca Textile Pottery Satchel 1400 AD

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre 1492: item #726578
PC-122307p

This is an extremely fine, ancient Peruvian Inca textile used to carry a pottery jug of some type - probably a water jug.

Condition: Some abrasion, due to it's being used in ancient times, but it's a wonderful example of the high quality weaving being produced by the Incan culture.

A lovely example of the typical patterns created by the weave... Click for details

Great, Lengthy Nazca Textile Sash - 17' LONG!

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Handiwork Pre AD 1000: item #726573
PC-122307m

This is a VERY exciting and colourful piece of textile from the Nazca culture of ancient Peru, circa 100 AD.

Beautiful tan and rich brown colours make this piece exceptionally rare.

This sash is an exceptionally-collectible piece, not only for its workmanship... Click for details