essay
The Chotuna friezes and the Chotuna-dragon connection
northern dynasties : kingship and statecraft in chimor: a symposium at dumbarton oaks, 12th and 13th october 1985 • Washington, D.C. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 275-296
By: Donnan, Christopher B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
At Chotuna in the Lambayeque Valley there are friezes in a courtyard to the northwest of Huaca Gloria preserved by windblown sand. Radiocarbon dates are provided, as well as drawings of the courtyard and friezes. The friezes are compared to similar ones at the contemporary site of Dragon in the Moche Valley, and reference is made to similar motifs in Moche and Chimu ceramics. The iconography of the Chotuna friezes may have been copied from painted textiles that served to disseminate a complex iconography throughout a wide area. This would account for the blurring of detail on the Chotuna friezes when compared with the ones at Dragon in the Moche Valley, and indicates the artists were unfamiliar with the images at their source. The arched, double-headed serpent with a human figure underneath first appeared in early Moche, and use of the motifs appears to have spread north from around the Supe Valley.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Visual arts
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Cultural participation
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chimu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 900-650 BP (AD 1100-1350)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chotuna, Lambayeque district (Lambayeque Valley) and Dragon, La Esperanza, Trujillo (Moche Valley), La Libertad, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christopher B. Donnan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-296)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89023336
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chimu Indians--Politics and government--Congresses
- Chimu Indians--Antiquities--Congresses
- Chan Chan Site (Peru)--Congresses
- Peru--Antiquities--Congresses