Chancay Culture 1000-1470
Chancay Painted Textile with Figures and Snakes, Circa. 1200AD
Pigment on cotton
67 x 215 cm
26,3 x 84,6 in
Frame size:
97 x 228 cm
26,3 x 84,6 in
Frame size:
97 x 228 cm
CHA0008
Copyright of Paul Hughes Fine Arts
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...
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.