Chile, Inca Faja Bolsa (Bag Belt)
This Faja Bolsa has extremely good colors and presevation, in blue, red and white. geometric striped design. The belt was worn around the waist and over a tunic. As tunics have not pockets, the bag belt allowed the wearer to store items from coca leaves to corn, something like a Money Belt is used for today. A similar example is found in "Arica, Diez mil Anos", Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, page 80, no. 180 & 181. Woven of alpaca wools. Weavings from Pica, Chile are usually in excellent condition with bright colors.
Period: Chile, Inca Pica, circa AD1470-1535
Media: Textile
Dimensions: Width: 6 x Length:. 17 � in.
$2,750
90247
Chile, Pre-Inca helmet from Chile with Extended Cross Design
A coiled and reed cone shaped helmet and decorated with crosses within squares in alternating colors of blue and salmon with a blue lower border. A similar helmet is illustrated in IDENTITY AND PRESTIGE IN THE ANDES pg.44. The Andean civilizations never developed a piercing technology but utilized a clobbering warfare and needed insulated
Period: Chile, Tiwanaku, Alta Ramirez Arica, circa AD450-800
Media: Textile
Dimensions: Height 11" Diam 9"
Price Upon Request
91131
Chile, Arica Small Loincloth
The lion cloth is comprised of 32 individually wrapped strands of vicuna. The design of the Andean cross appears when the strands are aligned. A similar small mens loincloth is illustrated in Arica Diez Mil Anos, Museo Chileno (1985: 57).
Period: Chile, Arica, Inca/Late Agroceramic Period, circa AD1470-1535
Media: Textile
Dimensions: Height: 12" x Width: 14"
$6,500
M8063
Chile, Arica Chilean Fishing Kit consiting of hook, line and sinker
This kit consists of a small finely woven basket for carrying the assembled items of fishing line with hook and sinker. The line cord is spun and plied of cotton. It is unusually well made, hard-spun, with a two-strand cord. There are two straight shank fish hooks, the smaller made of copper and the larger of cactus thorn - both without barbs. The sinker is cigar shaped stone. A fine cord lashing was used to attach the sinker to the loop of heavy cord. With this system, the weight could be easily attached to or removed from the line. Similar excavated fishing material is illustrated in "Excavations in Northern Chile," Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (1943), and also in Junius Bird, "The Cultural Sequence of the North Chilean Coast," Part 3, Southern Andes, in "Handbook of South American Indians" (1946: II: 587-597).
Period: Chile, Arica, San Miguel, Phase North Coast, circa AD1100-1200
Media: Textile
Dimensions: Length 6 1/2, width 4 1/2 and Height 4 1/2 inches
Price Upon Request
M8049
Chile, Inca feather shaman's mask with feather Nose appendages
This mask was worn by shaman to create an owl like impression. It is constructed by threading the individual duck feather quills. Figurative pottery images have been seen wearing this type of face mask. Similar masks are illustrated in ARICA 10,000 YEARS. Another example is illustrated in "Identity and Prestige in the Andes" pg 52.
Period: Chile, Late Intermediate Period, Arica North coast circa AD 1100-1200
Media: Textile
Dimensions: H 6 1/2" x W. 7"
$1,800
88033B
Chile, Inca fez style hat with step design in brown, gold, white and pink and feather plume
A fez style hat was placed as the final adornament on the Inca mummy bundles of Pica, Chile. They were not made anywhere else in all of the Inca Empire. They were made by a coil method wrapping different colored wool yarns around the coils to acheive the quartered step pattern. A similar example is illustrated in Arica Diez Mil Anos
Period: Chile, Inca, North Coast, Pica, c. AD 1470 - 1535
Media: Textile
Dimensions: H. 4 1/4 in.hat only H. with feathers 9"
Price Upon Request
91362
Chile, Mapuche Horse Blanket
The Mapuche Indians of southern Chile were famous for their horseback riding ability. They were the first Americans to learn how to ride horses in the New World. The slit in their tunics opened allowing them to spread their legs over the horse and these were the first true ponchos in the New World. A long pile colorful wool ceremonial horse blanket, which is very rare. A similar one is illustrated in "Colores de America" on the cover.
Period: Chile, Icalma Region, MAPUCHE, 19th Century, Villarcia
Media: Textile
Dimensions: Width 34" Height 48"
$6,500
97166
Chile, Pre-Inca Storage Bag from Arica, Chile
This large striped bag is decorated with a series of thin and broad vertical stripes in brilliant hues of red, green, tan, brown and white. The weaving was opened along the vertical sewn sides and is in excellent condition indicating that it was woven for ritual tribute rather than used in everyday life. These long, narrow bags are referred to as talegas. A group of talegas is catalogued in ARICA: 10,000 YEARS, ref # 195-199. Acquired in 1995 from Eduardo Aldunate, Santiago, Chile prior to the 1980s. Weaving Technique: plain weave. Professionally mounted on a stretcher.
Media: Textile
Dimensions: Length 29" x Width 13"
$5,800
95107
