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- catalog abstract ""A symbol of power and prestige in ancient Peru, silver also held religious significance, its soft cool sheen symbolizing the moon, a female deity. This beautiful book presents objects of silver - items of personal adornment, tomb offerings, and miniatures - from several Peruvian cultures that thrived along the coastal and highland regions of the Andes from the first millennium B.C. to the Spanish conquest of 1532-34. Excavated from the sites of such cultures as the Moche, the Lambayeque, the Chimu, and the Inka, these extremely rare and lovely objects of silver shed new light on a fascinating civilization."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11914560.
- catalog contributor b11914561.
- catalog contributor b11914562.
- catalog contributor b11914563.
- catalog coverage "Peru Antiquities Exhibitions.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""A symbol of power and prestige in ancient Peru, silver also held religious significance, its soft cool sheen symbolizing the moon, a female deity. This beautiful book presents objects of silver - items of personal adornment, tomb offerings, and miniatures - from several Peruvian cultures that thrived along the coastal and highland regions of the Andes from the first millennium B.C. to the Spanish conquest of 1532-34. Excavated from the sites of such cultures as the Moche, the Lambayeque, the Chimu, and the Inka, these extremely rare and lovely objects of silver shed new light on a fascinating civilization."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Director's Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Introduction / Heidi King -- The Evolution of Complex Societies in Ancient Peru / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters -- Silver in Precolumbian Peru / Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).".
- catalog extent "64 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300085125 (Yale University Press)".
- catalog identifier "0870999702 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language ""The essays by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters and Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech were translated from the Spanish by Debra Nagao."--T.p. verso.".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Peru Antiquities Exhibitions.".
- catalog spatial "Peru".
- catalog subject "739.2/3/08998 21".
- catalog subject "F3429.3.S54 K55 2000".
- catalog subject "Indian silverwork Peru Exhibitions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Director's Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Introduction / Heidi King -- The Evolution of Complex Societies in Ancient Peru / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters -- Silver in Precolumbian Peru / Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech.".
- catalog title "Rain of the moon : silver in Ancient Peru / Heidi King ; with contributions by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters and Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech.".
- catalog type "Exhibition catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".