Wooden implement with a carved bird with a fish in its beak, from the Casma Valley in northern coastal areas of Peru.
In several Andean cultures birds were highly revered for their ability to cross worlds and of being a link between the ocean and the land. They were associated with water and in several ways an emblem of fertility.
Pelicans, the Guanay cormorant and the Peruvian booby were birds with especially high status in that their droppings was used as the fertilizer called guano in agriculture.
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