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Flat pottery bowl with abstract painting. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.

Thin-walled pottery bowl with abstract painting. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.

Thin-walled pottery bowl with abstract painting. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.

Flat pottery bowl with abstract painting on the inside. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.

Clay roller stamp with relief of stylized plants used to apply skin decoration. This tool is from the early phase of the ecuadorian Jama-Coaque culture.

Flat bowl painted with mythical creatures. From the Classic period of the Maya civilization. Stunning object with lively colours.

Clay roller stamp with relief of plants to be applied as skin decoration. This tool was used in the early phase of the ecuadorian Jama-Coaque culture.

Tall and slender vessel from the pre-Columbian Nazca culture. The polychrome painting shows abstract patterns, as well as abstracted animals and faces.

Elegant vessel of the pre-Columbian Nazca culture. The polychrome painting is of high artistic quality and shows a mask.

The clay figure from the earliest phase of the Jama-Coaque culture shows the preparation of coca leaves. Including TL test from Kotalla laboratory.

Small bowl painted with abstract shapes. From the Classic period of the Maya civilization.

A magnificent modern product imitating the style of the pre-Columbian Nazca culture. It depicts a deity, a hybrid creature of mythical beast and human.

Finely crafted flint projectile from the Stone Age of North America. From a swiss museum collection.

The so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.

With polychrome abstract depiction of people and masks, possibly a deity. Wonderful vessel from the Nazca Golden Age.

With polychrome abstract depiction of people and masks, possibly a deity. Nice vessel from the Nazca Golden Age.