Snuff Tablet
35636
From: Bolivia | Quiripuju
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 35636 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tiahuanaco |
| Provenience | Bolivia | Quiripuju |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Date Made | 600-1000 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Stone | Copper |
| Technique | Inscribed | Inlaid |
| Iconography | Snuff | Sun | Pyramid | Akapana Pyramid? | Corn |
| Description | Black stone snuff tablet. Inlaid copper eyes. Inscribed sun figure, pyramid (maybe Akapana Pyramid, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia?), corn, earth with growing crops (Pachamama - Earth Mother). Sun figure clashes with other designs. Possibly added later. |
| Length | 12.07 cm |
| Width | 6.35 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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