A complete painted cotton mantle depicting a female deity. This Chancay painted textile shows the figure holding a staff and encircled by a serrated serpent.

A mate to this textile by the same artist, but of a male deity, is in the Reynaldo Luza Collection. It is published in Painted Peruvian Textiles by Unknown Artists, #4 and Textile Art of Peru, page 293. (Bernstein 1996)

Provenance:
David Bernstein, New York, 1996

Publishing History:
Goran Burenhult, editor. New World and Pacific Civilizations: Cultures of America, Asia and the Pacific. Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1994: 97.