Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalOffering vessel for llama fat "conopa"
Llamas were bred over 6000 years ago from the original guanaco and served as pack animals. Their fur was also used for the production of textiles, cords and ropes. Because llamas have been of such great importance to the people of the Andes, they have also been very important for religious rituals. There is a constellation called the "Llama" and in rituals to ask for rain, llamas with black fur were sacrificed. Llama meat was dried and eaten. Llama fat was also sacrificed for smaller offerings or rituals. Conopas can be found at natural shrines as offerings.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Inka-Kultur
- Object type
- Ritual object
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 cm
Length: 10 cm - Material/Technique
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Basalt
ground, Polished, scribed
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 093623
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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15th - 16th century AD.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Peru
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Change of physical control
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when
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1918
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- Provenance
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There is no
confirmed provenance for this object.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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