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Tuza style mask
AD 750-1250
Eucador, Carchi province: Piartal
Pottery
h. 24cm
UEA 787This life-size mask could have been worn during a dance or ceremony, though the very good condition of the work suggests that it was most probably found in a tomb and so may have been a funerary mask. The bulge on the left cheek represents the chewing of coca - a leaf that does not grow at high altitudes but would have been obtained by trade with peoples of the Pacific slopes of the Andes and the coastal plain.
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