Standing Figure with Hands on Hips

Piartal culture, Nariño culture, Pre-Columbian

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A small earthernware whistle in the form of a ceremonial anthropomorphic figure. With large, elaborate headdress, mask, and body costume. Possibly a bird form. Made from mould.
A youthful and strong figure standing proudly on long slightly bent legs, displaying a trophy head in the right-hand and holding a double-headed axe in the left, with peetorals indicated and wearing geometrically carved bark armor around the waist, the striated, parted coiffure forming a long plait down the neck in grey volcanic stone.
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