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Sword
The upper part of this so-called "plug-in sword" - also known as the known as a rudder or keel sword - is decorated with bird figures and painted in red colour. painted with red colour. Max Uhle had found such objects in tombs in the Ica Valley, which protruded vertically behind bundles of mummies. behind bundles of mummies. They may have been used as grave markers. See also RJM 32315-32316, 60496-60497.
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
Ica-Chincha
Object type
grave markers
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 32317
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17
Provenance and sources
when
1476-1534
Period/Style
Late horizon; Ica-Chincha (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (south)
-> Ica (Region) -> Ica (Province) -> Ica (City)
when
1907
when
1915-19-03
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