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Pre-Columbian Bat-Shaman figure Colombia, Tairona Culture, AD 1000-1500
Aggiudicazione:
5.500,00 GBP
Numero offerte:
18

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Descrizione

Pre-Columbian Bat-Shaman figure
Colombia, Tairona Culture, AD 1000-1500; height cm 3,5 (1’’); gr 8,34; Shaman figure made in tumbaga (gold and copper alloy) and used as pendant. Depicted naked with legs spread apart and a long object like a sceptre grasp in the hands; wears pectoral decorated with interweaving line, piercings with beads on the cheeks and part of an half-round flat headgear, probably once composed of two bats hang upside down.
The meaning of such figures is not well understood, also called caciques (chieftains) are frequently related to the birds figure, especially bats, which appear as decoration of their big headgears.

PROVENANCE:
English private collection; until 1985 in the Principality of Monaco; formerly in the collection of Gaspard Mollien (French diplomat, 1796-1872).
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