Post with Carved Faces

1000-1470 CE (Late Intermediate)

34.6 cm 166.4 cm 11.4 cm

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Placed beside or inside a tomb, this grave marker resembles a human figure. If buried, the post would have supported the roof of a tomb of the Ica-Chincha people, who lived on the central coast of Peru. Crowned with a two-pronged headdress, the post was treated the same way as...

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Martin and Ullman Artweave Textile Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1992, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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