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Plume of parrot (Ara macao) feathers with foundation of braided vegetal fiber. Plumes from Huaca Malena vary in size and color and were placed in the folds of the basketry headdress. Provenience, Huaca Malena, Sector I, Platform A.

Item record
Chapter
Ch. 17: Wari Textiles, Vehicles of Ideology, and Power during the Andean Middle Horizon: Iconography of the Weavings from Huaca Malena, Asia Valley
Item type
Photograph
Cultural terms
Wari-affiliated
Geographic terms
Central Coast
Temporal terms
Middle Horizon (MH)>>Middle Horizon Epoch 2>>Middle Horizon Epoch 2B>>Middle Horizon 2B/3
Image contents
Reuse
Recommended citation

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