Fertility is represented in many different ways. The Chimu people depicted fertility with pumas. Hindus call the Bull Nandi the “great inseminator” (this work can be seen the South and Southeast Asia gallery). How would you represent fertility?

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Fertility is represented in many different ways. The Chimu people depicted fertility with pumas. Hindus call the Bull Nandi the “great inseminator” (this work can be seen the South and Southeast Asia gallery). How would you represent fertility?

Source: Book of Symbols

Chimú Vessel

Pre-Columbian & Native American: Edmund F. Petty Gallery»

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