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Moche Wooden Medicine Spoon | Flying Shaman
100 - 500 CE
- Material
- Wood
- Use
- Ceremonial
- Century
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- Size
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- Provenance
- Acquired on Spoon
Catalogue Note
Carved wooden medicine spoon depicting a flying shaman holding a large spoon bowl with both hands. The shaman’s head is looking in an upward position, and wearing an ovoid headdress, and wearing shorts. The wood carvings from the Mochica culture are extremely rare as the climate didn’t permit most of the wood to survive in the climate zone of the Mochica.
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From the collection of
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