Wrapped horn ("waqra phuku"): long spiral horn made of segme - Lot 222

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Wrapped horn ("waqra phuku"): long spiral horn made of segme - Lot 222
Wrapped horn ("waqra phuku"): long spiral horn made of segments of bovine horn assembled and held together by leather straps, used in Andean pastoral rituals. Bovine horn, leather H. 19 cm - L. 30 cm Central Andes, post-colonial folk rituals, 19ᵉ-20ᵉ c. AD. Peru Condition: wear from use, small cracks and abrasions. A similar instrument is preserved under number 1602 at the Museum of Popular Music in the Spanish Basque Country. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the Indian peasant insurrections 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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