Jaguars, Pampas cats and monkeys were often kept as pets in royal courts of Sican rulers. They were clothed and adorned with jewels and were regarded as personifications of rich harvest and fertility. This one, a squirrel monkey, is eating an avocado sitting on a textile onto which thousands of gold plaques are sewn.
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He is attending a healing and purification ritual. North Coast of Peru, AD 600. The reconstruction is based on effigy vessels and vase paintings belonging to Phase IV of the Moche style.
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“…..In approximately 50 CE, a splendid burial ceremony took place atop a platform in the center of Sipan for the dynasty’s founder, the Old Lord of Sipan. A young woman and a llama accompanied the lord in death, along with hundreds of grave goods of gold, silver, precious stones, and textiles…..” Continue reading
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