On view
Art of the Ancient Americas
Antara (panpipe),
80–260 CE
Nasca
Early Intermediate Period (Early Nasca phase)
2021-237
The designs that embellish the gourd and panpipes displayed here present complex variations of the so-called Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, a common supernatural subject in Nasca art that blends animal and human qualities. Both of these works feature one of the being’s characteristic traits, a human face largely covered by white feline whiskers. The figure that wraps around the gourd has human arms and legs but also a wing and a bird tail. The image on the panpipes is more complex, with elements of the primary supernatural’s body replaced by other elements.
Information
Title
Antara (panpipe)
Dates
80–260 CE
Medium
Ceramic with polychrome slip-paint
Dimensions
20.7 × 11.7 × 2.3 cm (8 1/8 × 4 5/8 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund
Object Number
2021-237
Place Made
South America, Peru, South coast
Culture
Period
Subject
Carlebach Gallery, New York; May 17, 1969, “Property of Carlebach Gallery, New York” sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, lot 129, sold to Joerg Haeberli (1928-2017) [1]; by descent to his widow, Carolyn Haeberli; 2021, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] According to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Pre-Columbian Art & American Indian Art: Property of the Carlebach Gallery (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1969), lot 129, and paid invoice. Copies in the curatorial file.
The Haeberli Panpipe
The Haeberli Antara
- 1969 Pre-Columbian and North-American Indian Art (Sale cat., #2864, 17 May 1969). Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York., p. 29, lot 129 (illus.)
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Gordon Willey, ed. Das alte Amerika (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1975)
, pl. 365 (illus.) - Joerg Haeberli, “Twelve Nasca Panpipes: A Study,” Ethnomusicology 23(1): pp. 57-74., pp. 57-74 [Discussed as ‘JH’]
- Hilaine Silverman, “Differentiating Paracas Necropolis and Early Nasca textiles,” in Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape and Society, H. Silverman and W. H. Isbell, eds. (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002.), pp. 71-106; Fig. 3.1. (illus.)
- Hilaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx, The Nasca (Malden: Blackwell, 2002)., Fig. 2.4 (illus.)
- Patrick H. Carmichael, “Proto-Nasca Art and Antaras,” Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology, no. 35 (2): pp. 117-172., 117-172; Fig. 11. (illus.)
