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Nice Pair of Pre-Columbian Chancay Cloth Tunic Borders

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Textiles: Pre 1492   item# 324425

Nice Pair of Pre-Columbian Chancay Cloth Tunic Borders
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Janus Antiquities
(330) 612-3957


$175 

The Chancay culture (1200-1450 A.D.) was one of many that ruled areas of Peru prior to the conquests of the Incas. The Chancay reigned mainly in the valleys of Chancay and Chillon on the middle coast of Peru. In the early 1400s the Chimú state conquered parts of southern Chancay area, and by 1450 the Incas occupied both areas.

The best-known of the Chancay artifacts are textiles that consist of embroidery work, pain ...click for details


Nice Framed Pre-Columbian Huari Textile

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Textiles: Pre AD 1000   item# 186722

Nice Framed Pre-Columbian Huari Textile
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(330) 612-3957


$125 

This very nice, rare Huari textile fragment features a motif of paired, opposing birds with additional ornamentation between. Much fringe remains on the fragment, which is overall quite stable and in good shape.

The Huari (or Wari) empire (500-800 AD) was one of many precursors to the more well-known Incas in what is today Peru. Through a series of military campaigns, the Huari became one of the most successful of t ...click for details

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