ETHAM 027823

Boîte à poudre à priser

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027823
Snuff box
Chile, Caspana
Atacameña. 10th – 15th century
Wood, hallucinogenic powder
Gift of Émile de Bruyne in 1959
MEG Inv. ETHAM 027823
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This ritual snuff kit comes from the Caspana site in Chile. In the pre-Columbian period, the consumption of psychoactive substances was widespread in northern Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. The handle of the tray is a figure wearing a rectangular headdress, while the middle section of the snuff straw is decorated with a terrifying zoomorphic being with protruding teeth.

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Pre-Columbian South America

Pre-Columbian cultural history is just as spectacular in South America as it is in Mesoamerica. This region also developed agriculture independently and, from the fourth century, formed states, without writing, the wheel or a market economy. The objects on display mostly come from the Andean region, particularly from Peru, the centre of complex societies and the greatest cultural deployment in this continent.

Bibliograpy

  • Hidalgo, Jorge (éd.). 2000 (1989). Culturas de Chile, Prehistoria, desde sus orígenes hasta los albores de la conquista. Santiago. Editorial Andrés Bello.

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