Artist Mochica, Precolumbian
Title
  • Ceremonial Knife
Date between 500 BCE and 500 CE
Medium copper, shell, and mica
Dimensions Overall: 5 7/8 × 2 1/2 × 7/8 inches (14.9 × 6.4 × 2.2 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Conrad H. Smith Fund
Accession Number 1984.31
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
On View Native American S131, Level 1 (see map)
1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)