Vintage Peruvian Wood Trinket Box With Silver Rim and Chancay Textile

Offered is a hand carved box of Cumarú wood (also known as Brazilian teak), carved from a single block of wood with no seams or hinges. The lid has a fragment of vintage hand woven Chancay textile with a figurative/geometric pattern framed by a hand hammered silver rim and protected by a piece of glass. The Chancay tribe is known to have been present in Peru between 1200-1450, and archaeological sites are known to be approximately 50 miles from present-day Lima. The Chancay are an early sect of the Inca Empire. The textiles can be found in numerous museums exhibiting Pre-Columbian Latin American art, and the techniques of their weavings are similar to early Asian and early African works. These pieces are woven from cotton, Llama, Alpaca, and Vicuna wools.

Measures7″ long, 3″ wide, 2″ tall