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Two Aymara warp-faced woven coca bags from the Lake Titicaca region.  Both bags are in super condition and are quite unusual design-wise.  They are on the smaller of coca bags,  ...
Two Aymara warp-faced woven coca bags from the Lake Titicaca region.  Both bags are in super condition and are quite unusual design-wise.  They are on the smaller of coca bags,  ...
Two Aymara warp-faced woven coca bags from the Lake Titicaca region.  Both bags are in super condition and are quite unusual design-wise.  They are on the smaller of coca bags,  ...
Two Aymara warp-faced woven coca bags from the Lake Titicaca region. Both bags are in super condition and are quite unusual design-wise. They are on the smaller of coca bags, but not miniatures. The size the largest being 8 x 6 inches. What they lack in size, they make up for in beauty, rarity and color quality. The top bag is a "shaped" bag that is wider along the bottom than at the top. This is something seen in some Pre-Columbian coca bags from the far South coastal region of Peru and Northern Chile - which is a culturally related region, but shaped bags are very rarely seen in post-conquest period bags. The elaborate patterning in this bag speaks to both the region it comes from and to the importance the weaver placed on the individual it was made for. The smaller of these bags has a patterning rarely seen in such things. It also harks back to an earlier Pre-Columbian model in its pebble-like ground weave and snake-like patterning. These two are exceptional in color, condition and design and very collectable.
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