Chancay Culture 1000-1470
26,3 x 84,6 in
Frame size:
97 x 228 cm
Further images
Within this masterpiece of a painted Pre-Columbian textile we can make out male and female forms on either side and in the centre an exaggerated vagina composed of fish or snake heads, the overall reading appears as a celebration of birth and the joys of fecundity. It was widespread among pre-Columbian societies of the coast to individualise their art by applying thematic variations to the images they painted on cotton textiles, graphic compositions of a standing human figure surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of fish, insects, felines and birds.
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