Keyword: Inca Empire

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Human SacrificeInca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

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

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

Picart, Bernard

Sacrifice d'un Agneau Noir, le jour de la grande fête du Soleil (1723)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismInca Empire

Unknown

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

Unknown

Tumi (cerimonial copper knife) (15th)

from: Peru

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnifePeru

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

Valdez, Lidio M.; Bettcher, Katrina J.; Huamaní, Marcelino N.

Inka llama offerings from Tambo Viejo, Acari Valley, Peru

in: Antiquity, v. 94 (2020), issue 378: pp.1-18.

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Inca Empire

Vega, Garcilaso de la (1539-1616); Baudoin, Jean (1590-1650) (Eds.)

Le Commentaire Royal, Ov L'Histoire Des Yncas, Roys Dv Perv : Contenant leur origine, depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac, leur Establissement, leur Idolatrie, leurs Sacrifices ... ; Ensemble vne description particuliere des Animaux, des Fruicts, des Mineraux, des Plantes, & des singularitez du Païs [chap. 11: Des sacrifices qu'ils souloient faire]

Paris: Courbe, 1633.

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

Keywords: AmericasAnimal Sacrifice Human SacrificeInca EmpirePeru

Villerey, Antoine Claude François, after Nanine Vallain 1754-1828

Spanish conquistadors discovering victims of human sacrifices among the Incas (?) [1790-1799]

London, Wellcome Collection

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AmericasHuman SacrificeInca Empire