Huari (Wari) Culture
Wooden Huari Staff, circa 800 AD
Carved wood
61 x 10 cm
24 x 4 in
24 x 4 in
HUA0019
Copyright of Paul Hughes Fine Arts
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This wooden staff is typically associated with ritual and shamanic practice. The art of wood carving was highly developed during the Chimú era, and wood sculptures were also installed at...
This wooden staff is typically associated with ritual and shamanic practice. 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 along the North Coast, in what is now Peru. Most notably, sculptures of this scale stood as attendant figures at the entrances to the palaces of Chan Chan — a vast adobe city, whose remains still stand outside the modern city of Trujillo, which flourished from around AD 1000 to 1470, before falling to the invading Inca army.
Exhibitions
Continuities, 2000 Years of Female Arts in South America, Sala Brazil, London, 2023.Wari Empirical Arts, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, Maiden Bradley, 2024.
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