Pre-Columbian Chancay Wood Staff Rattle with Anthropomorphic Faces expressive faces

expressive faces

Material: Terracotta with mineral pigments

where fragments of earlier sculptures were repurposed for suspension or secondary ritual use

and communal scenes were interred as part of funerary assemblages

and cream pigments over an orange slip

Pre-Columbian Chancay Wood Staff Rattle with Anthropomorphic Faces expressive facesPre Columbian Chancay Wood Staff Rattle with Anthropomorphic Faces, Peru, 10001450 ADHeight: 54 in. (137 cm) Of elegant vertical form, this rare ceremonial staff rattle is finely carved from a single length of aged hardwood, the upper section surmounted by a domed finial and encircled by a vertical arrangement of four anthropomorphic faces in shallow relief, each face delineated by rectangular apertures for the eyes and mouth, pierced through the