Burmese Bronze Hintha Bird Opium Weight sancaiglaze Inca Culture

Inca Culture

Bowers Museum

This scoria-carved figurine serves as a potent relic of Aztec religious devotion

while married women wore fibre coil skirts (yokal) or seed-strung skirts that draped below the abdomen

while others are performed for entertainment or communal cohesion

Burmese Bronze Hintha Bird Opium Weight sancaiglaze Inca CultureEarly to mid. 19th century, Burma (Myanmar), Southeast Asia A beautifully cast bronze opium weight in the form of a Hintha bird (Brahmani duck), with a six sided rounded base and faint verification mark of a six rayed star on the front. Three finely incised concentric lines encircle the top of the base. This weight represents an authentic market used example, richly patinated and full of character. The Hintha, or Hamsa, was the emblem of the Mon