Pre Columbian Chimu snuff tray Ancient South American art

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Pre Columbian Chimu Snuff tray Ancient South American art

Pre-Columbian, Chimu culture, Peru, ca.10-14th century CE.

A ritual snuff spoon carved from Hard wood with feline deity small crouching figures  inlaid with Spondylus shell with white shell     Spoons like this one were  used ingest a ground drug known as vilca or huilca, found in southern Peru and Bolivia, and obtained from the beans of the tree Anadenanthera colubrina.

Ex Uk collection London collected before 1960

$700.00

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