Standing female statuette, arms outstretched, ribboned headd - Lot 218

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Standing female statuette, arms outstretched, ribboned headd - Lot 218
Standing female statuette, arms outstretched, ribboned headdress decorated with painted motifs, schematic face with almond-shaped eyes and black highlights. Beige terracotta with cream slip, traces of brown/black paint. H. 22 cm x W. 17 cm Chancay culture, AD 1000-1450 Peru (Chancay valley, central coast). Condition: eroded surface, chips and small gaps on limbs, burial concretions. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) (acquired before 1966, visible on a family photo dated January 1966). Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the peasant Indian uprisings that punctuated the colonial and republican history of Latin America. He began his research at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico, then boarded at the Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1966. For almost twenty years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, he led a post-graduate seminar on the ethnosociology of peasant Indians in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Henri Favre was Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He is the author of numerous works on the Incas, the Mayas, Peru, Mexico, the indigenous movement in Latin America...
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