Cuchimilco – male clay figure – Chancay – Peru

DESCRIPTION/EXPERTISE
Peru’s chancay culture settled fifty miles north of Lima in the Chancay valley between 900 and 1400 A.D. Cuchimolo figures are almost always presented as a pair to represent family.
Archaeologists have often found “cuchimilcos” in the tombs of Chancay nobility, as they believed that the outstrechted hands absorbed the negative energy to protect the deceased.

MEDIUM

SIZE
42,5cm high – 26cm wide – 10cm depth

PROVENANCE

PRICE
€ 1.500