Musical Pipes

Nazca culture, Pre-Columbian

570 - 630

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Seated Female Figure, Jalisco culture, Pre-Columbian, earthenware; paint
Head Fragment, Inca culture, Pre-Columbian, ceramic
Front section of a stone yoke. Carved with a strong male face in Teotihuacan style. Set-in eyes have arched brows extending to a heavy pug nose. Thick lips are curled down at the corners. Headdress has a crest of butterfly antennae. There are concentric Us on either side. A horizontal headdress brim steps up above the face, turns downward at corners, divides into three parallel ridges which turn inward to ear ornaments with pendants.
female