6.18

Siguas 1, roll-out drawings from bands of one engraved cane from a set of nine. The bands are 10.6, 9.8, and 9.1 cm in height, respectively. Note the horn-like appendage on the side of human heads, braided hair, and the two backward-looking animals. Both men and women had braided hair. Private collection. The dates of two engraved canes are available: cal. 206 to 1 BC (Haeberli 2002:Figure 1) and cal. 85 BC to AD 220 (one of the above set of nine, but not the illustrated one).

Item record
Chapter
Ch. 06: Front Face Deity Motifs and Themes in the Southern Andean Iconographic Series
Item type
Drawing
Cultural terms
Siguas 1
Image contents
Material
Object
Reuse
Recommended citation

Isbell, William H.; Uribe, Mauricio I.; Tiballi, Anne; Edward P. Zegarra, 2018, "Visual database", https://doi.org/10.25346/S6/1B33FN.