Feathered Panel, 600–900, Peru, South Coast, Wari, Feathers on cotton, camelid hair, H. 29 1/4 × W. 83 5/8 in. ( × 212


Feathered Panel, 600–900, Peru, South Coast, Wari, Feathers on cotton, camelid hair, H. 29 1/4 × W. 83 5/8 in. ( × cm), Textiles-Featherwork, The discovery of an ancient burial or ceremonial site in the upriver region of the Churunga Valley, in far south Peru, received little attention in the turbulent world of 1943. Decades later, it would take two generations of Andean scholars to painstakingly piece together the puzzling story of this discovery, which included the largest and most spectacular find of Precolumbian Peruvian feather work to date


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