Seated Ruler with Pampas cat
ceramic
250-550 CE
Mochica culture
Peru
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Earflare with spider from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Moche culture is recognized as one of the first complex societies of the desert North Coast of Peru. The Moche created monumental ritual temples, expansive irrigation systems, and a prolific art tradition that found expression in various media, including painted and molded ceramic vessels. Although they did not practice a system of writing, Moche art was rendered in a realistic style, offering insight into Pre-Columbian daily life, narrative myth, and ritual tradition. In Moche art the gods were represented fighting among themselves, or against other supernatural beings or humans. These battles ended with the decapitation of the defeated opponent. The gods are represented holding a half-moon shaped knife known as a tumi. A crucial element of Moche royal regalia was the nose ornament, whose imagery varies from benign to predatory. In this example, two supernatural decapitators brandish knives over a row of severed human heads. The Moche were among the Andes’ most inventive metalsmiths, and they developed many complex techniques for joining and enriching the surfaces of metals, which they usually worked by hammering rather than casting. The gold-and-silver ornaments were made by first joining gold and silver sheets through heating and hammering. Then came the relief decoration, followed by the selective removal of metal along the joins. Finally, the ornament was trimmed and polished.
Nose Ornament
silver and gold
depicting decapitators and heads
Peru, North Coast
Moche culture
50-800 CE
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The Moche culture, flourishing in ancient Peru between 100 and 800 CE, is renowned for its sophisticated irrigation systems, artistic expressions, and monumental constructions. Located on the northern coast, the Moche developed complex societies in arid environments, building advanced irrigation canals and creating intricate art, including pottery and metalwork. Their culture also involved ritualistic practices, including human sacrifice, and a belief in a deity known as the Decapitator God. The site of Loma Negra is located in Peru‘s upper Piura Valley, 2.5 km east of kilometer 972 North on the Pan American highway. In 1969 looters located the cemetery at Loma Negra (Lechtman et al. 1982). Hundreds of Moche or Vicús metal artefacts were looted from an undetermined number of deep shaft tombs (Shimada 1994: 75). The cultural attribution of these objects is controversial to some degree. They have been attributed to the Vicús Culture, the Moche Culture, or some sort of combination of the two. Due to the looted nature of the corpus, little can be determined about Moche/Vicús interaction in the Loma Negra region.
Hand Mirror
gilt copper, stone
Mochica
Loma Negra - Piura
(500 a.C. - 500 d.C.)
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The Moche deity Ai Apaec, depicted as a fierce warrior with an angry face, octopus tentacles for hair, and a snake belt, holds a tumi blade in one hand while grasping a crab’s claw with his other. The creature fighting Ai Apaec is a crab demon, depicted with crab claws, protruding crab legs from the side (in addition to standing on two humanoid legs), and an angry expression on its carapace. Inspired by Moche pottery depicting such a fight on display at the Museo Larco, located in Lima, Peru.
Worked out a quick sketch of the Moche god Ai Apaec fighting a crab demon.
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Meaning of #mochica MOCHICA: RELATIVE TO THE AMERINDIAN MOCHE:PUEBLO ON THE NORTH COAST OF PERU... mochica
Ancient Moche pottery circa 400 CE from modern-day Peru.
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Significado de #mochica mochica: relativo a los moches: pueblo amerindio en la costa norte del perú. .. mochica
Significado de #mochica Mochica: em relação o Moche: aldeia ameríndia na costa norte do peru... mochica
"fire brings life as much as it burns it"
mavuika except shes mochica!
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