Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 International"Tumi" sacrificial knife decorated with a small llama head
Such knives, which are very sharp at the lower edge, were used to cut an animal's throat. Llamas are still slaughtered in this way today. These crescent-shaped knives were also used for ritual sacrifices and were already present in many precursor cultures of the Incas.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Inka-Kultur
- Object type
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Knife
- Dimensions
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Width: 15 cm
Height: 13.5 cm
Depth: 3 cm - Material/Technique
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Bronze
moulded
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 119962
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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1957
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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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