Canopa

Language: Quechua
Language: Quechua

Corn on the cob

The offering, here in the form of a stone corn cob, was called a canopa by the Inca. called canopa by the Incas. They were buried at the foot of sanctuaries (huacas) in order to to compensate for the maize harvest or the removal of the maize (Kurella and de Castro). Two comparable objects from the Inca culture can be found in the Ethnological Museum, which come from Ica and were collected by Gretzer (SMB, inv. no. V A 44989 and V A 44990).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Inka
Object type
archaeological objects
Dimensions
40 x 100 x 35 mm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 32378
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

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