373 - Shaman with snakes. Chimú, ca. 1300 AD. H 33.5 cm. Fired clay with a black glaze. A bulbous vessel in the shape of a shaman whose long hair falls down his neck. He wears a tall headdress whose two side flaps end in cat heads with forked tongues. Two snakes, each with a cat’s head at both ends, coil around the four protruding shoulder ridges. With TL certificate! Intact. Provenance: Formerly from the Nölke Collection, Bielefeld, before 1986.

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