An exhibited Chimu-Inca Double Bird Effigy Vessel, Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon, ca. 1100 - 1500 CE Amulets - Offerings one of the largest Indigenous

one of the largest Indigenous groups in Australia

The integrated pillar at the back has a suspension loop for attachment

whereby decapitation may have been viewed as a necessary evil for combating the adverse effects of sorcery (Hoopes 2007)

A finely-cast limestone plaster model left leg

" which referred to such vessels used in temple and funerary contexts

An exhibited Chimu-Inca Double Bird Effigy Vessel, Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon, ca. 1100 - 1500 CE Amulets - Offerings one of the largest IndigenousA striking blackware stirrup spout vessel featuring the conjoined effigies of two long billed water birds, likely shorebirds or cormorants, rendered in a dynamic and naturalistic pose. One bird is shown preening the neck of the other, while the second turns its head back across its body. Both figures are sculpted with tight wings, bulbous eyes, and prominent beaks, each anchoring one end of the stirrup spout that rises centrally. The vessel rests on a