Huari Polychrome Textile Trophy Heads, ex-Schmitt

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, South Coast, Huari / Wari culture, ca. 6th to 10th century CE. A fascinating textile fragment that may have been part of a garment or funerary wrapping mad

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Proto-Nazca culture, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A fine example of a colorful textile fringe composed of tightly woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in hues of maroon,

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay or Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A bizarre and abstract head made from camelid fibers (alpaca or llama) spun into threads and cor

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) or Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A lovely four cornered hat woven from a camelid (alpaca or llama) fiber that is dyed in hues of red, yellow, d

**Originally Listed At $1650** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A finely woven and braided sash comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibe

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Wari (Huari), ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A lovely textile headband fragment comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in hues of citrine, wheat, teal,

A carved wooden Latmul peoples Suspension Hook (Samban or Tshambwan) with two ancestor style heads and central ancestor figure on custom mount. The Hook on base measures 19 inches tall ( 21.5 on its b

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Guanacaste region, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A wonderful pottery vessel in the form of a trophy head decorated with war pain

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. An interesting Nazca head jar, the lower portion of the vessel of a rounded form resolving to a sharply constricted upper end below a gently

A rare ancient carved Volcanic stone idol of a warrior or Priest shown holding a Trophy Head. The head appears to be upside down and worn around his neck. Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulous ceramic "trophy head" vessel with a round but stable base, gently tapering walls, a deep int

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome pottery drinking vessel (kero) with a slightly corseted body, a flaring rim, and a gently rounded base. Around the exter

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, Ca. 125 to 250 BCE. A polychrome terracotta vessel with thin walls and a rounded bottom, adorned with a register of abstract trophy head variants in hues of red

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. Polychrome bowl in dark shades of red, black and brown with repeating bands of trophy heads around the center section. Trophy heads were taken i

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nasca, 400 to 700 CE. This is a steep-walled pottery bowl painted in the characteristic bright and bold style of Nazca (Nasca) ceramics. The interior is a deep purple red

Pre-Columbian, South Peru, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A Nazca ceramic kero rising from a round-bottomed base, its elegant silhoutte displaying a soft curve on the lower body. The surface decoration is organiz

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A large, well-preserved Nazca polychrome kero (also quero or qero). It is in the form of a disembodied head, probably representing a trophy h

**Originally Listed At $4000** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Proto Nazca, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. An interesting textile panel of a roughly rectangular form comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca o

Back at auction due to fraudulent bidder from 6/2/2016 sale… Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which was m

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of a voluminous form with a round but stable base, a compressed spherical body with a central carination, and a tall, flared rim

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A polychrome flared round bottomed kero with extremely thin walls that present an intricately painted iconographic program. The uppermost reg

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery "trophy head" vessel featuring a bulbous body that tapers to a brief neck and a flared, annula

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. Two finely hand built, polychrome deep bowls in hues of chocolate brown, red, cream, and orange, with rounded bottoms and flaring rims. Each

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous pottery bowl featuring a round yet stable base and impressively thin walls that spread slightly outw