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 | | The Huari Figurine—Design and History The freestanding Huari figurine—which measures 4 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/16 inches (10.2 x 6.4 x 2.6 cm) —is composed of intricate and densely patterned inlays of mother-of-pearl, purple and orange spondylus shell, mussel shell, turquoise, pyrite, greenstone, lapis lazuli, and silver on a wood matrix. |
 | | The wearing of a court tapestry tunic identified one’s rank in the Huari empire, and the emphasis on the elaborateness of the costume in the Kimbell figurine suggests that the figure represented was a dignitary of some status. |
 | | From about 600 to 1000 A.D., the city of Huari, near present-day Ayacucho in Peru, was the capital of a northern empire and the point of departure for the Huari’s military subjugation of the majority of the regional, coastal, and Andean societies. |
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