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Sword

The upper part of this so-called "plug-in sword" - also known as the also known as a rudder or keel sword - is decorated with 4 anthropomorphic figures with hats and decorated with 14 stepped patterns. Max Uhle had found such objects in tombs in the Ica Valley. that protruded vertically behind bundles of mummies. They may have served as grave markers. grave markers. See also RJM 32315, 32317, 60496-60497.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ica-Chincha
Object type
grave markers
Dimensions
45 x 720 x 145 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 32316
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
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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