Décoration de nez avec araignées 100 C.-B.–A.D.200 les ornements de nez de Salinar de la culture de Salinar peu connue, qui a prospéré dans les vallées côtières du nord du Pérou, d'environ 200 av. J.-C.–300 av. J.-C., sont parmi les premiers ornements de corps découverts dans la région.Bien que certains ornements salinar soient simples en forme et en structure, d'autres, comme celui illustré ici, sont plus complexes en assemblage et en iconographie.Cet ornement est composé de quatre araignées à corps rond, de leurs pattes et de leurs pinces soigneusement rendues en fil d'or fin.Le travail à la fois minute et circulaire forme une bande délicate filée avec habileté autour de la

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Nose Ornament with Spiders 100 B.C.–A.D. 200 Salinar Nose ornaments from the little-known Salinar culture, which flourished in the coastal river valleys of northern Peru from around 200 B.C.–300 A.D., are among the earliest body adornments discovered in the region. While some Salinar ornaments are simple in form and structure, others—such as the one shown here—are more complex in assembly and iconography. This ornament features four round-bodied spiders, their spindly legs and pincers carefully rendered in thin gold wire. Minute, circular wirework forms a delicate web spun skillfully around the spiders in a semicircular shape. Spider imagery appears in Andean works of art from the middle of the first millennium B.C. until the Spanish Conquest in the sixteenth century. Spiders were particularly important within the cosmology of Peru’s North Coast for their ability to catch and kill live prey, a skill that linked them to warfare and ritual sacrifice. The Moche, who flourished in this region from 200–850 A.D. and who are thought to be the cultural successors to (if not the direct descendants of) the Salinar, may have even seen the spider’s practice of ensnaring its victim in a web and draining vital fluids as analogous to the way a warrior captured an enemy with ropes and extracted blood. In the North Coast, spiders were further understood to be harbingers of agricultural fertility, as they often appeared before rainfall, an important life-sustaining resource in the arid, desert-like environments of coastal Peru. Nose ornaments, worn suspended from the nasal septum and often covering the mouth and lower face, were made for high-status individuals. These and other body adornments were likely used in the ancient Americas as material expressions of position and power. Frequently found on or near an interred individual as salient features of elite burials, such ornaments were also thought to identify the status of the interred in the afterlife, distinguishing