Ceremonial cane with a richly decorated shaft showing geometric shapes, birds and men with fox skin head-dresses. Foxes generally associated with agriculture, and fox skin head-dresses were supposedly used by people guarding the agricultural fields.
Among Spanish chroniclers’ descriptions of the Inca Empire are illustrations showing guardians holding a cane in one hand and wear a fox-skin on his head. This ceremonial cane is painted with red and yellow pigments. The red color comes from cinnabar and the yellow color is auripigment-an ore mineral. This cane is from the period 1450-1534 – during the time the Inca Empire controlled Ica region.
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