South America • Earliest art 8800 b.c.e. • Time frame of focus: 1500 b.c.e. - 1550 b.c. • West South America – Dry Coast, mountains, rain forest – Little Rain • Shamanistic, Kingship • Chavin, Parascas, Nasca, Moche, Tiwanaku, Wari,, Lambayeque, Chimu, Chancay & Inca • Pottery, Gold, Textiles • Condors, pumas, Llamas, jaguar, caiman, monkey, macaw, etc.
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South America Earliest art 8800 b.c.e. Time frame of focus: 1500 b.c.e. - 1550 b.c. West South America –Dry Coast, mountains, rain forest –Little Rain.
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– Natural fertility– Entheogens (spirit within / Ukhu)– Twisted Pattern
• Universe Intertwined/Interdependent
• Offerings– Corn beer, water, gold, shell
Tenon Heads, Temple of Chavin de Huantar, 900 – 200 b.c.e.
• Tenon - pegged (100)
• Individualized
• Shamanistic transformation
Black and White Portal Reliefs, Chavin, 900 – 200 b.c.e., • New
Temple
• B/W stone portal
• Duality / Ahni
Black and White Portal Reliefs, Chavin, 900 – 200 b.c.e.,
• Anthropomorphic
• Beaks, fangs, tails, wings
• Male– Hawk
• Female– Vagina
Dentata– Eagle
Raimondi Stela, Chavin, 900
– 200 b.c.e.,
• Staff bearing deity
• Duality within single figure
• 7’• Granite• Upright/
inverted image
Chavin Textiles
• Cloth 3000 b.c.e.• Karwa burial site• Stone carvings at the
site of Chavin de Huantar.
• Staff God:–Clawed hands and feet,–Serpent hair, belt
• Cotton• Brown and pink die• Female figures
–Eyes as breats–Fanged vaginas–Intertwined staffs
Santa Ana Stirrup-spout vessel Chavin, 900-200 b.c.e.
• Incising, burnishing
• Jaguars, humans plants fruit
• Thin walls
• Stirrup = Tinku
• Santa Ana
– Red and black
– Fanged hads
– Pendent iris
Cupisnique
Thick / lip at top
Chapter 3: Paracas and NascaOculate Being, Paracas, 750 b.c.e. and 100 c.e.
• Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period
• Peak 200-500 c.e.• Paracas and Nasca South Coast• Paracas - “Sand Falling like Rain”• Village Culture• Burial - bundles of textiles• Ceramics• Oculate: Holes for eyes• Fertility cult