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

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

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