Anthropomorphism and staffed personages at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia c. AD 600-1000

During the Middle Horizon (c. AD 600-1000), a new iconography spread throughout the South Central Andes known as the Southern Andean Iconographic Series (SAIS). One of its most persistent motifs is the Staff God, a human-like personage facing forward and holding a vertical staff in each hand. Most i...

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Main Author: Viau-Courville, Matthieu
Published: University of East Anglia 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549455