CA. 200 B.C. - A.D. 100

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TWO LATE PARACAS TEXTILE FRAGMENTS
ca. 200 B.C. - A.D. 100
tightly woven in ochre, dark and teal blue, moss green, white, and red, with highly stylized nighthawks, each with a typical laterally-banded tail and belly, the heads with distinctive squared eyes and long, corrugated tongue with a trophy-head at the end, curling streamers emerging from the sides of the face.
Lengths each 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) (2)

Provenance

From a Private European Collection since 1980

Lot Essay

Cf. Sacred Landscapes, fig. 6K for a line drawing of a nighthawk

The prominence of birds in the Paracas landscape is reflected in the luminous and densely woven Paracas textile iconography.

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