Description:

Chavin Culture, Jequetepeque River, Peru , 1200-1000 BC Important & Large Mask in Earth Colored Tones with Red Cinnabar High Lights on Face. It has Coffee Bean Eyes, Finely Sculpted Nose, its Mouth is having Jaguar Teeth making it a Transformation Mask. This most likely is one of the First Tranformation Mask's depicting Ai apec, the Jaguar God (very prominent in the Later Mochica Culture ). A truly Powerful Image of Great Spirtual Significance: Shaman in Transformation to Jaguar. TL test included. 13" W by 8" H.

  • Provenance: Ex-Westermann Collection, Germany
  • Condition: Slight loss on back.

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June 14, 2013 9:00 AM MDT
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