Tumi (cerimonial copper knife)

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Tumi (cerimonial copper knife)

Year: 15th

From: Peru

Location: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

External link: www.metmuseum.org

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnifePeru

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Edited by: Chiara Petrolini

Ceremonial knife (tumi) with figural finial (1470–1532)

from: South America, Peru, Central highlands

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnifeSouth America

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

People of Qulla Suyu ofering a llama and basket of coca leaves to the mountain-waqa Willka Nuta (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Inca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

Anonymous / Unknown

Tumi, Ritual Knife (900–1100)

from: Peru, North Coast

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: GoldKnifeLambayeque (Sicán)Native AmericansPeru

Unknown

Tumi (knife) with a talon (1400-1530)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnife

Besom, T.

Of Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Inca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

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