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Peruvian featherworks : art of the Precolumbian era / Heidi King ; with essays by Mercedes Delgado, Mary Frame, Christine Giuntini, Johan Reinhard, Ann Pollard Rowe, and Santiago Uceda

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King, Heidi
Published
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [between 1900 and 1999?]
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2012]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Additional Creators
Delgado Pérez, Ma. Mercedes, Frame, Mary, Giuntini, Christine, Reinhard, Johan, Rowe, Ann Pollard, Uceda, Santiago, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Contents
Introduction / Heidi King -- Feather arts in ancient Peru / Heidi King -- Early featherwork from Ocucaje / Ann Pollard Rowe -- The feathered dresses of Cahuachi / Mary Frame -- t A woman's feathered cloth from Cerrillos / Mercedes Delgado -- Chimú feathered offerings from the Huaca de la Luna / Santiago Uceda and Heidi King -- Sacred featherwork of the Inca / Johan Reinhard -- Techniques and conservation of Peruvian feather mosaics / Christine Giuntini -- Plates / Heidi King -- Museum collections with significant holdings in featherworks consulted for this publication.
Summary
"Of universal appeal and unique beauty, feathers have for thousands of years been used by people in all parts of the world to adorn themselves and to animate their environment. Among traditional societies, feathers and objects embellished with feathers also have great cultural value and are imbued with spiritual energy and supernatural force. The feather arts of ancient Peru have been little investigated. This publication summarizes what is currently known--on the basis of iconography, technical data, and the archaeological record--about this exquisite and unusual art form"--From the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
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ISBN
9781588394682 (hc ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1588394689 (hc ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
9780300169799 (hc ; Yale University Press)
0300169795 (hc ; Yale University Press)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-217) and index.
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