
A wooden bowl or plate with shell and precious stone inlays, depicting a harvest scene with crops and lunar deities. Chimu or Sican Civilization, Object MO 4430 from Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú [2048×1423]
by jabberwockxeno
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Information regarding the object taken from these sources, these contain further information on the piece, though with a few conflicting bits of info
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317648324_Communion_and_Inter-Existence_the_Spondylus_spp_on_the_Northern_Coast_of_Peru_during_the_Late_Intermediate_Period_800-1450_AD
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peruvian_Bowl_01.jpg
https://www.antiguoperu.com/2014/02/los-antiguos-peruanos-y-el-mar-nueva.html
https://www.facebook.com/antiguoperu/photos/plato-ceremonial-de-madera-cuya-decoraci%C3%B3n-que-muestra-plantas-y-deidades-lunare/1450790288472346/
And this page, which is the OS of the image:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1044344601067612&set=a.252536786915068&id=100064762444205
For some context, both the Chimu and Sican civilizations were along the coasts deserts of Northern Peru, and take a lot of influence from the earlier Moche civilization. Chimor, the Chimu kingdom or empire, was the largest state in the Andes at the time prior to the expansion of the kingdom of Cusco (who would become the Inca Empire): The two were rivals and Cusco’s conquest of Chimor in the 1470s marked the end of real serious opposition to Inca expansionism, as few, if any other states were large enough to give Cusco/the Inca competition by then
Also tagging /u/DownvotingCorvo , /u/CommodoreCoCo and /u/the_gubna here in case they have further context to add or corrections on anything these pages or I said.