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Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru
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Headdress with Panels
Sicán (Lambayeque); 10th–11th century
Cotton, reeds, hide, feathers; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (13.3 x 21 cm)
Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund 61.11
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This type of headdress seems to have been fashionable on Peru’s north coast in the tenth and eleventh centuries. It is often seen in depictions of the principal Sicán personage—perhaps a deity, ruler, or mythological ancestor—on ceramic vessels and in metalwork, where it is further enhanced by long plumes emerging from the top. A crown of similar construction depicting the Sicán personage on the front and back panels was excavated in the late nineteenth century at Pachacamac by Max Uhle.
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