Description
Pre Columbian Chimu Snuff tray Ancient South American art
Pre-Columbian, Chimu culture, Peru, ca.10-14th century CE.
A ritual snuff spoon carved from Hard wood with feline deity small crouching figures inlaid with Spondylus shell with white shell Spoons like this one were used ingest a ground drug known as vilca or huilca, found in southern Peru and Bolivia, and obtained from the beans of the tree Anadenanthera colubrina.
Ex Uk collection London collected before 1960
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