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Huaco Inca on the north coast - with a dead man - Anthropological Museum - Lima - 1969

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with stylised birds. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1969

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with a stylised person carrying wings. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1969

Two gold vases with turquoise inlays - - 1977

Tissue of the Nazca Culture - Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

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Les tisserands Paracas, qui vivaient sur la côte sud du Pérou il y a plus de 2000 ans, ont confectionné de remarquables étoffes couvertes de dessins symboliques (Museo antropológico, Lima).

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Paracas-Necrópolis aux premiers siècles de notre ère. L'incomparable art textile des tisseuses-brodeuses des déserts du Sud-Pérou illustre à profusion le culte obsédant des têtes-trophées et réduites, portées en plastron, en franges et en pendeloques. (Museo nacional de Antropologia y Arqueologia, Lima, Pérou.)

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Ce fardo funéraire d'un mètre de hauteur est visible au Museo de Antropologia y Arqueologia de Lima, Pérou. Quel dignitaire inca se cache derrière un masque d'apparat en cuivre? Quelle princière momie coiffée de fines nattes postiches, le front ceint d'un Ilauto à plumes jaunes, vêtue d'un uncu à dessins géométriques ceinturé d'une cordelière à pompons rouges, emporta pour son voyage posthume une besace aux lamas stylisés selon d'ancestrales traditions?..

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Précurseur du poncho indien, l'uncu inca aux dessins linéaires en cinq couleurs qui alternent à l'oblique avec des étoiles à huit pointes vient de la région de Chincha, sur la côte sud du Pacifique péruvien. Hauteur: 97 centimètres, largeur: 77 centimètres. (Museo nacional de Antropologia y Arqueologia de Lima, Pérou.)

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Detail eines Mumientuches (manto) der Paracas-Nekropolis-Kultur mit menschlichen Figuren, die Fächer und Zeremonienstäbe in den Händen tragen. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima, Peru. - 1977

Chancay fabric with stylised personified animals - Height 22.5 cm - Width 8 cm - Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima

Coca bag - Inca - height 66 cm - Museum of Anthropology, Lima - 1977

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture. On the dress are trophy heads. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1969

Detail at the edge of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture. Each person carries two trophy heads. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

Gold vase of the Chimú culture - Height 20,5 cm, diameter on top 17 cm - Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología - Lima - 1977

Gold vase and ear pendant of the Chimú culture - height of the vase 20,5 cm - diameter top 17 cm - Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología - Lima - 1977

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with a stylised reptile. The whole cloth has 9 figures and measures 2.50m x 1.18m. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

Gold death mask - Chimú culture - width 32 cm - Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with a stylised reptile. The whole cloth has 9 figures and measures 2.50m x 1.18m. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with a stylised reptile. The whole cloth has 9 figures and measures 2.50m x 1.18m. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with four warriors with masks. In one hand they are holding a trophy head, in the other apparently a musical instrument. Four trophy heads hang from the trousers. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

Detail of a mummy cloth (manto) of the Paracas necropolis culture with four warriors with masks. In one hand they are holding a trophy head, in the other apparently a musical instrument. Four trophy heads hang from the trousers. Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima - 1977

The golden tumi of Íllimo was a knife or ceremonial axe of the Lambayeque culture (8th to 14th centuries), although it was long wrongly attributed to the Chimú culture. It was made of embossed gold leaf and inlaid with semi-precious stones. Its blade had a semi-circular shape and its handle was an elaborate representation of a deity, probably the mythical Naylamp mentioned in Spanish chronicles. It is the most famous example of old Peruvian goldsmithing. It was stolen from the Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology in Lima in 1981. The valuable stolen piece had the following dimensions: Total length 43.5 cm; length of the figure of the god 29 cm; length of the knife in the shape of a half-moon 14.5 cm; maximum width 15.5 cm. The weight was 1 kilogram. - 1977