Peruvian Dolls : Medium Chancay Peruvian Funerary Dolls-Set of 2 #346

Peruvian Dolls 346. Description: Medium Peruvian Funerary dolls-set of 2. They are modern dolls but try to imitate the pre-Columbian Chancay dolls and are made using ancient textile fragments which could be a 1000 years old. 11 inches tall. Provenance: Ex Brining Collection, collected over 40 years ago. Condition: Ware as expected, but generally intact and excellent for their age. "History: Not much is known about the Chancay civilization which developed in the later part of the Inca empire. This culture emerged after the fall of the Wari civilization. Parts of the southern Chancay area were conquered by the Chim̼u in the early fifteenth century and in about 1450 A.D. the Incas were occupying both areas. [1] It is believed that the Chancay had a centralized political structure, forming a small regional state. [3] Thus the Chancay culture declined in the fifteenth century to make way for the territorial expansion of the Inca Empire. Occupying the central coast coastal region of Peru, th