The Stone Ancestors: Idioms of Imperial Attire and Rank among Huari Figurines
| Autor: | Anita G. Cook |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology History Hierarchy 060102 archaeology media_common.quotation_subject Interpretation (philosophy) 06 humanities and the arts Mythology Ancient history 01 natural sciences Politics State (polity) Turquoise visual_art Kinship visual_art.visual_art_medium 0601 history and archaeology Inheritance Algorithm 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Latin American Antiquity. 3:341-364 |
| ISSN: | 2325-5080 1045-6635 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/971953 |
| Popis: | Two caches were recovered at Pikillacta, the largest Huari state installation (A. D. 550-1000) in the southern Andean highlands; each contained 40 richly garbed votive turquoise figurines. The figurines are analyzed in terms of their production, use, and deposition as well as their overall morphology. To the extent possible, the rank associated with the costumes worn by each figure is also considered. Reference is made to Inca apparel and its potential for interpreting Huari official garments. Because the number 40 also held special importance in Inca state organization as an administrative unit or division, the Inca example provides concepts of administration vital to the interpretation of the figurines. A more unusual source—origin myths associated with the Chimor Kingdom—supports the relation between turquoise figurines and ancestor worship. I argue that the stone figurines embody qualities and convey concepts that are central to Andean political administration, and that they are intimately tied into the web of ancestral cults through which kinship, hierarchy, and inheritance were determined. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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