Tumi, Ritual Knife
Year: 900–1100
From: Peru, North Coast
Location: Metropolitan Museum, New York
External link: www.metmuseum.org
Edited by: Chiara Petrolini
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The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Keywords: Native AmericansPeru
Sacrificial Knife (1634)
from: Liceti, Fortunio, Pyronarcha, sive, De fulminum natura deque febrium origine, Crivellarum, Padua, 1634, p. 123
Native American priest sacrifices or eviscerates a victim before an idol. (1774)
from: Zárate, Agustin de, Histoire de la découverte et de la conquête du Perou, vol. I, Compagnie des libraires, 1774, p. 64
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