A South Coast wood ceremonial leeboard, Ica Valley region, Late Intermediate Horizon, ca. A.D. 1100-1400

Alan Lapiner, 1960's

This remo was cut into three sections by clean cuts along the shaft. It is missing 1 humming bird along the top , the beak of the uppermost humming bird, and has a cracked damage partway down the row of birds. There are 4 orange squares painted on the shaft which have some color reinforced. The base of the shaft shows some loss.
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This large 'remo' made from the hard algarrobo wood, features twelve figures and a combination of hummingbirds and long-beaked water birds along the side. The openwork lattice design depicts the various types of complementary sealife crucial to sustaining agricultural production in its use as fertilizer. For similar examples see Menzel (1977: fig. 8A and 9), and Sotheby's, May 17, 2002, lot 213.