Punku Earrings. A pair of ceremonial brass earrings carrying the Punku, the Portal, from the stone of Chavín de Huántar.
Chavín is one of the mother cultures of the Andes, a ceremonial centre in the Peruvian highlands more than three thousand years old. Its symbols are a visual language, carrying teachings as old as the stones. The Punku is one of them: a jawless face with serpents where speech would be, framed by two cords woven without end.
The portal is the place where what cannot be said still reaches us. Worn at the ears, where listening lives, Punku is a quiet companion for the thresholds you move through.
Each piece is drawn in Peru, in consultation with teachers in Áncash, and handcrafted in Bali by metalsmiths who shape each piece in wax before casting in brass. 5% of every sale returns to Yarpakuti Chawpin, the organisation in Áncash that keeps this tradition alive.
Each pair arrives in a KANTU pouch, with a story card and a care card.
Materials: solid brass.
Adornment as Remembrance.
Punku Earrings. A pair of ceremonial brass earrings carrying the Punku, the Portal, from the stone of Chavín de Huántar.
Chavín is one of the mother cultures of the Andes, a ceremonial centre in the Peruvian highlands more than three thousand years old. Its symbols are a visual language, carrying teachings as old as the stones. The Punku is one of them: a jawless face with serpents where speech would be, framed by two cords woven without end.
The portal is the place where what cannot be said still reaches us. Worn at the ears, where listening lives, Punku is a quiet companion for the thresholds you move through.
Each piece is drawn in Peru, in consultation with teachers in Áncash, and handcrafted in Bali by metalsmiths who shape each piece in wax before casting in brass. 5% of every sale returns to Yarpakuti Chawpin, the organisation in Áncash that keeps this tradition alive.
Each pair arrives in a KANTU pouch, with a story card and a care card.
Materials: solid brass.
Adornment as Remembrance.
