La sacerdotisa de Chornancap
Subtitle: una mujer con poder en el antiguo Perú
By: [autor prologuista : Carlos Eduardo Wester La Torre ; edición : María Alicia Uribe Villegas, Juan Pablo Quintero Guzmán]
Contributors: Museo del Oro (Banco de la República)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Museo del Oro
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Bogotá
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9789586644082
Subjects: Grave goods; Exhibitions; Women priests; Indian women; Indians of South America; Funeral customs and rites; Excavations (Archaeology); Social life and customs; Antiquities
Description: The tomb of a high ranked priestess from the top of the hierarchy in the Lambayeque culture, is one of the most important archaeological finds of recent times. This exhibition is dedicated to its powerful history and the goldsmithing work of the Lambayeque culture (800 to 1350 A.D.). The museographic script and curatorship were by archaeologist Carlos Wester La Torre, director of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional Brüning, where the archaeological pieces come from, and also director of the archaeological project Chotuna-Chornancap since 2006, where in 2011 was found and excavated the tomb of the high ranked woman. The exhibition recreates the discovery and excavation process of the tomb in an area south of the pyramid Chornancap known as "the elite residence" and narrates in detail the different components of the elaborate funerary ritual, and how, thanks to the iconographic attributes of a silver anthropomorphic mask, a high-ranking female character was recognized whom archaeologists have named "the priestess of Chornancap".
Notes: Published on the occasion of the temporal exhibition held at the Museo del Oro in Bogotá from January 12 to May 9th, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99).

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Presentación / Carlos Wester La Torre; title: Introducción a las excavaciones de Lambayeque; title: Contexto arqueológico de la costa norte del Perú; title: La cultura lambayeque; title: La excavación de la sacerdotisa; title: Hallazgos bajo la sacerdotisa; title: El trabajo con la comunidad.