Keyword: Inca Empire – Image Gallery
Ceremonial knife (tumi) with figural finial (1470–1532)
from: South America, Peru, Central highlands
Spanish conquistadors discovering victims of human sacrifices among the Incas (?) [1790-1799]
London, Wellcome Collection
Sacrifice d'un Agneau Noir, le jour de la grande fête du Soleil (1723)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Miniature llama figurine, wrought in hammered gold, probably deposited as an offering to the mountain gods, accompanying a human sacrifice (1500-1532)
from: Peru
The British Museum, London
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°.
Tumi (knife) with a talon (1400-1530)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art