Galleries : Undying Tales 2021 : UT 22 - Long-whiskered Owlet
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LONG-WHISKERED OWLET - 6.5x6.5 inches $240.00 Xenoglaux loweryi Status: Endangered, due to rarity and deforestation of the limited range. In many of the Andean societies, birds were an important part of their culture. Feathers were used for beautiful adornment, and their likenesses were carved on friezes, ceramics, jewelry, and weapons. The various qualities of birds carried through from the mythologies about them and had power to imbue the wearers or bearers of such artifacts. The Moche, pre-Incan society in Peru, believed that owls carried fallen warriors from the battlefield to the world of the dead. The owls bore their charges away in their claws, sweeping with their silent wings beyond the reach of the mortal cloud forests of the Andean mountains.
Size: 7 x 7 inches Detail closeups:
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