Pre-Columbian ArtSotheby's, 1984 - Indian art |
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Absentee Bids Ancient auction avial band beads birds Bowl brown carved catalogue Chancay Chimu Chinesco Chupícuaro circa A.D. circular Colima Collection Costa Rican cream curling cylindrical decorated deep red Diameter ear-spools Early Classic ears Emmerich encircled Exhibited face facial feathers feline Female Figure flaring flattened geometric glyphs green hands head Head Vessel headband headdress Height 8in helmet illus illustration incised Jade jaguar Jaina Jalisco John Wise Late Classic Late Preclassic legs Length lips loincloth mask Mayan Mezcala Middle Mochica Middle Preclassic Mixtec Mochica molded motifs Museum Nayarit Nazca necklace nose ochre Olmec open mouth openwork orange ornaments overall in reddish-brown painted in reddish-brown painted overall panels pendant pierced pigment Pre-Columbian Art Private Collector Protoclassic Provenance purchaser rectangular red pigment rounded Sculpture Shaft Tomb shoulder sides Sotheby's spout standing stone stylized surmounted tail Tairona Telephone Telex Teotihuacan Tlatilco torso Veracruz waist Warrior wearing woven York