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Detail of a Sicán style uncu, representing a frontal personage holding two staffs. Slit tapestry technique. This textile is probably imported from the North Coast. Provenience Huaca Malena.

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
Sicán
Geographic terms
North Coast
Temporal terms
Middle Horizon (MH)>>Middle Horizon Epoch 3
Image contents
Material
Reuse
Recommended citation

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