NAZCA FEATHERED CEREMONIAL PONCHO (UNCU)
- Southern Peru, Nazca culture
- Early Intermediate Period
- Ca. AD 200–500
- Cotton foundation and feathers
- Dim. (H × W): 206 × 108 cm
- (81.1 × 42.5 in)
- Provenance:
- Scientific report:
- Due diligence:
• Belgian CITES authority: the poncho is confirmed as a worked specimen (Art. 2(w), Reg. (EC) No 338/97) meeting the conditions of Art. 62(3). No EU certificate is required.
• Le Fort, Geneviève, ed. Precolumbiaanse meesterwerken: De collectie van Dora en Paul Janssen.Brussels: Mercatorfonds; Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2005, p.199.
• Lemaître, Serge, Nele Strobbe, and Karen Theunis. INCA: Textiel en tooi uit de Andes. Antwerp:Ludion, 2018, pp. 32-33.
• Anton, Ferdinand. Art de l’ancien Pérou – Kunst aus dem alten Peru: [Exhibition], Luxembourg, Banque de Luxembourg, 1 June–16 July 1994 (in collaboration with Galerie Sailer, Salzburg). Luxembourg: Banque de Luxembourg, 1994, p.50.
• Purin, Sergio, ed. Inca -Perú: 3000 ans d’histoire. Exhibition catalogue, Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, Brussels, 21 Sept.–30 Dec. 1990. Ghent: Imschoot, Uitgevers S.A., 1990, p. 343.
• de Lavalle, José Antonio, and José Alejandro González García. The Textile Art of Peru: Collection. Lima: Industria Textil Piura (PIMAX) / L.L. Editores, 1993, 145, 146, 147, 148.
• de Lavalle, José Antonio. Culturas precolombinas: Nazca (Colección Arte y tesoros del Perú). Lima: Banco de Crédito del Perú en la Cultura, 1986.
• Bjerregaard, Lena, and Torben Huss. PreColumbian Textiles in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2017, p.81.
Photo credit : Studio Asselberghs – Frédéric Dehaen
