Vintage 1940s Peru Chancay Culture Textile Burial Doll Parents with Baby, Ancient Mummy Cloth Fragments recycled as Native American Figurine

$56USD

Vintage 1940s Peru Chancay Culture Textile Burial Dolls Representing Parents with Baby, Genuine Ancient Mummy Cloth Fragments recycled as Folk Native American Figurines, Rustic Handmade Dolls for Home Decor

RARE piece! Ethnographic Native American 1900-1950: Father, Mother & Child textile doll made with fragments of true Peruvian mummy's clothes from burial sites all over central Peru. They are usually made by members of the cultural group of Chancay using the antique weaving remnants and imitating the original dolls or figurines in use by their ancestors a millennia ago. This dolls in number of few hundred were sold as souvenirs in Peru in the 1960s and even 1970s. Today they are a true treasure for collectors. 

Measures 7.2" x 3.9" inches or 18.5 x 10 cm / Weight 51 grams

All dimensions are approximate