Pre-Columbian Chancay Wood Staff Rattle with Anthropomorphic Faces and cream pigments over an

and cream pigments over an orange slip

and communal scenes were interred as part of funerary assemblages

grasping ritual elements that reinforce the ceremonial identity of the figure

Finely carved in dense volcanic stone

1212 for a related seated figure)

Pre-Columbian Chancay Wood Staff Rattle with Anthropomorphic Faces and cream pigments over anPre Columbian Chancay Wood Staff Rattle with Anthropomorphic Faces, Peru, 10001450 ADHeight: 54 in. (137 cm) Of elegant vertical form, this rare ceremonial staff rattle is finely carved from a single length of aged hardwood, the upper section surmounted by a domed finial and encircled by a vertical arrangement of four anthropomorphic faces in shallow relief, each face delineated by rectangular apertures for the eyes and mouth, pierced through the