Chimu Culture 1000-1470
Chimu Wooden Staff, circa 1400 AD
Carved wood
105 x 4 x 4 cm
41 3/8 x 1 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
41 3/8 x 1 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
CHI0004
Copyright of Paul Hughes Fine Arts
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This is one of the rarest known examples of a rattle staff, a form most usually associated with ritual and shamanic practice; at the top, a monkey is carved playing...
This is one of the rarest known examples of a rattle staff, a form most usually associated with ritual and shamanic practice; at the top, a monkey is carved playing its musical instrument. The art of wood carving was highly developed during the Chimú era, and wood sculptures were also installed at the entrances to buildings and tombs on the North Coast — most notably, sculptures of this scale stood as attendant figures at the entrances to the palaces of Chan Chan. This vast adobe city, whose remains still stand outside the modern city of Trujillo, flourished from around AD 1000 to 1470, when it fell to the invading Inca army.
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