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An Incised Mochica Knife of Copper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald Collier
Donald Collier*
Affiliation:
Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
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Abstract

In the Nathan Cummings collection, Chicago, is a copper knife from Peru with an incised design depicting the Mochica-style cat headdress often shown in vase paintings and on modeled figure jars. The knife is similar in form to weapons carried by warriors shown in vase paintings; these weapons are probably knives rather than axes.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 104 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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