Chimú palace model with figures, found at Huaca de la Luna, Peru (1440–1665 CE), wood cotton, and shell. Themodel shows a ritual in the palace courtyards, with the three larger figures thought to represent mummies. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)
Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
