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Chimu Stone Wall Appliqué - PF.0762
Origin: Northern Peru
Circa: 900
AD
to 1200
AD
Dimensions:
3.75" (9.5cm) high
Catalogue: V2
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Style: Chimu
Medium: Stone
$1,500.00
Location: United States
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This highly stylized Chimu animal head has a
dowel attached for insertion into a wall. The
animal, perhaps a jaguar, has bulging round eyes
and a ferociously grinning mouth with prominent
fangs. In spite of its abstract symmetry, or
perhaps because of it, this sculpture has the
haunting, ominous presence of something
glimpsed fleetingly in a nightmare, a denizen of
the darkest part of the jungle.
- (PF.0762)
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