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Llama effigy
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AD 1400 � 1532
Peru
Silver or silver alloy
Height: 23.2 cm
Acquired: 1962
UEA 150The Incas are well known for their advanced culture, geometric architecture and violent control of an empire. Llamas provided the Incas with milk, meat and leather and had a central place in their religion, and this effigy is likely to have been placed in a grave alongside a human sacrifice. It is hollow and made from several pieces of sheet metal � the joints burnished to disguise them. « Back to collection listing
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