Jaguars, Pampas cats and monkeys were often kept as pets in royal courts of Sican rulers. They were clothed and adorned with jewels and were regarded as personifications of rich harvest and fertility. This one, a squirrel monkey, is eating an avocado sitting on a textile onto which thousands of gold plaques are sewn.
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After the conch shell sounds the call to arms, warriors of both factions collide in the middle of a battlefield situated outside the city. Each warrior attacks his opponent with a mace, the main weapon of the Moche culture. Many of the wooden maces found in excavations were originally covered with copper, gold or bronze sheet. The main objective of combat appears to have been the capture of high-ranking prisoners for sacrifice on ceremonial occasions.
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From 1464 to 1505, the Aztec city of Texcoco was ruled by Nezahualpilli, a poet and philosopher whose name means “The Lord of Fasting”. Nezahualpilli was one of the most famous kings of Texcoco, with 2000 wives and concubines and 144 children. According to the chronicles, Nezahualpilli sometimes mingled with the crowd dressed as commoner.
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He is attending a healing and purification ritual. North Coast of Peru, AD 600. The reconstruction is based on effigy vessels and vase paintings belonging to Phase IV of the Moche style.
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Shamaness wearing a ceramic tanga and jewelry made of jadeite. Face and belly are painted. She offers a spoon made of jadeite. Reconstruction based on iconography and archaeological evidence. DAM Costa Rica Catalogue Project, 2006. https://www.academia.edu/1222402/Reconstructing_the_Pre-Columbian_World
“…..In approximately 50 CE, a splendid burial ceremony took place atop a platform in the center of Sipan for the dynasty’s founder, the Old Lord of Sipan. A young woman and a llama accompanied the lord in death, along with hundreds of grave goods of gold, silver, precious stones, and textiles…..” Continue reading
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