Flute with Incised Geometric Motif and Mouth in the Form of a Human Head

Chimú, Peru, 1200–1450

~ Ceremonial Knife (Tumi).

Culture: Chimú

Place of origin: Perú

Date: A.D. 1100–1470

Medium: Gold with turquoise inlay.

For #OwlishMonday here is a cute silver owl vessel (with two owlets!)

Title: Owl Vessel Date: 14th–15th century Geography: Peru Culture: Chimú Medium: Silver Dimensions: H. 6 1/2 in. × W. 3 1/2 in. × D. 6 in. (16.5 × 8.9 × 15.2 cm) [Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1978.412.161]

This gold funerary costume from the Chimú capital Chan Chan in northern Peru is a highlight of the Museo Larco in the Pueblo Libre district of Lima, Perú.

Feathered Crown

Date: 14th–15th century

Place of origin: Perú

Culture: Chimú

Medium: Feathers (Paradise Tanager, Macaw), cotton, skin, cane, copper

Finished my first attempt at embroidery. Based on a Chimú pattern obtained from the embedded post. It's here if you wan to try it yourself. It has the right amount of compleximity for me to want to try embroidering and not give up on it.

Ceremonial Knife (Tumi), 1100-1470, Chimú

From a general-audience archaeology article.

The curious thing here is that the anthropologist seems to assume that social and political (incl gender) inequality was a 'fact of life' which a worldly and (apparently) resigned Chimú reflected in their legends, rather than a social structure which the powerful Chimú elites of Chan Chan either created or perpetuated (and it seems unthinkable that they originated the pattern of the legend referred to).

There is a reluctance, sometimes, to politically vilify an ancient culture, especially an indigenous one, this being itself a political sin; and yet the sociopolitical inequalities so roundly condemned in our time have to have come from somewhere ... it used to not even need saying that we had inherited them from the earliest times. But now, ancient times too, especially where they link to nonwestern and/or indigenous peoples, are politically untouchable, and so the timeless patriarchal and other stratified social prejudices seem to have emerged from nowhere, at no time ...

La región norte de Perú, hogar de la cultura preinca Chimú, ha producido otros 76 sacrificios de niños y en un grupo estaban dispuestos en círculo, con las cabezas casi tocándose.

Copper peapod ornaments • Chimú, Brazil, 12-15C

Breastplate

Chimú, 1000–1470 CE

~ Feathered Crown.

Date: 14th–15th century

Place of origin: Perú

Culture: Chimú

Medium: Feathers (Paradise Tanager, Macaw), cotton, skin, cane, copper.

For #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here are two Chimú polychrome effigy vessels in the form of guinea pigs, North Coast Peru, 1100-1400 CE, now in the Museo de América Madrid collection. Both feature split-color black and white faces so there are three views of each.

Inv. 10217 (3 views)

Inv. 10297 (3 views)

Title: Tunic with Felines Date: 1450–1550 Geography: Peru Culture: Chimú Medium: Cotton, camelid hair Dimensions: H. 25 x W. 70 in. (63.5 x 177.8 cm) Classification: Textiles-Woven Metropolitan Museum of Art