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Personage wearing killer-whale attributes, cotton embroidery

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Description: The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples
Polychrome ceramics and bright-hued textiles characterize the southern regions of the central Andes as decisively as bichrome pottery and large urban groupings do the ancient civilizations of northern Peru. Such many-coloured vessels, and the textiles, were traditional products as early as the fifth century B.C. These southern regions extend from the Cañete Valley on the Pacific Coast of Peru, east and south to Bolivia, the north-west Argentine, and northern Chile. As in the rest of Peru, the …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.419-439
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123.020

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