Tumi (Ritual Knife)

AD 450-650 (Early Intermediate)

15.1 cm 14.7 cm 1.8 cm

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This object pertains to the Andean theme of sacrifice and death as a religious act of regeneration and renewal. The small knife with crescent-shaped blade (a tumi) is a traditional Andean cutting implement that appears to have been the invention of the Moche during the Early I...

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80410
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Private collection, California; Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, May 12, 1999, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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en
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