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Art of the Ancient Americas
Public domain
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Artist: Unknown

Votive in the Form of a Chili Pepper

A.D. 100–300

Applied feathers over fiber core

8.89 × 12.7 cm (3 1/2 × 5 in.)
Gift of Erik Jacobsen
2019.1.76
Geography: 
Geography Andes Mountains
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Andes, Early Nasca culture
Classification: 
Textiles
Provenance: 

Erik Jacobsen Collection, to 2019; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Anne Paul, ed., Paracas Art and Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal Peru (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991), fig. 9.14.

Alan R. Sawyer, Early Nasca Needlework (London: Lawrence King, 1997), fig. 121–25.

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