Tumi, Ritual Knife
Year: 900–1100
From: Peru, North Coast
Location: Metropolitan Museum, New York
External link: www.metmuseum.org
Edited by: Chiara Petrolini
Related Documents:
Of Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Religious practices of the native Americans of Peru. Priests sacrifice animals on a bonfire, throw rocks with serpents or snakes and animals painted on them, and eviscerate animals. (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 309
John Carter Brown Library
