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Figurine29.423

Culture
Tiwanaku
Material
stone
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Poncho or Tunic42.156

A. Augustus Healy Fund

Culture
Tiwanaku
Material
camelid fibre
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Figure70.177.29

Gift of Ernest Erickson

Culture
Tiwanaku
Material
stone
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Headband41.1273.20

Museum Expedition 1941, Frank L. Babbott Fund

Culture
Wari and Tiwanaku
Material
cotton ? and camelid fibre
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Tray for Hallucinogenic Snuff74.176

Carved wood trays were used by ancient Andean people for the mixing of hallucinogenic snuff made from the pod seeds of the Anadenanthera tree. When inhaled through the nose with tubes, the snuff produced ecstatic trances that enabled shamans to communicate with spirits and ancestors. This carved snuff tray from northern Chile is decorated with two kneeling anthropomorphic foxes. The depressions in the eyes probably once held turquoise inlays. The figures’ pose and tunics decorated with incised designs suggest that they are supernatural beings.


Las tablillas de madera tallada eran usadas por los antiguos habitantes de los Andes para mezclar polvos alucinógenos hechos de las vainas y semillas del árbol Anadenanthera. Al inhalar a través de la nariz con tubos, el polvo producía trances extáticos que permitían al chamán comunicarse con espíritus y ancestros. Esta bandeja tallada para inhalar del Norte de Chile está decorada con dos figuras de zorros antropomórficos. Las depresiones en los ojos probablemente contenían incrustaciones de turquesa. La pose de las figuras y las túnicas decoradas con diseños incisos sugieren que se trata de seres sobrenaturales.

Culture
Tiwanaku
Material
wood
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Textile Fragment with Birthing Llamas46.46.2

A. Augustus Healy Fund and Carll H. de Silver Fund

Culture
Tiwanaku and Wari
Material
cotton and camelid fibre
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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