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Most likely the top of a much larger votive statuette and probably was once brightly painted with coloured pigments
Museo Antropológico Reina Torres de Arauz
Textiles played a profound symbolic role in Chancay society
The casting net
is often shown emerging triumphantly from a turtle shell
Manabí or Quimbaya Terracotta Spindle Whorls hairpin Most likely the top ofPre Columbian era, Manab Culture, Ecuador & Quimbaya Culture, Colombia, c. 1050 1500 AD A stunning collection of four Pre Columbian earthenware spindle whorls, each adorned with intricately incised fine line motifs in elegant linear and circular patterns. These meticulously hand polished artifacts serve as remarkable testaments to the advanced textile traditions of ancient South American civilizations. Spindle whorlsknown as malacates in Aztec Mexico,