Book

King, Heidi.

Rain of the moon : silver in Ancient Peru / Heidi King ; with contributions by Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech and Luis Jaime Castillo Butters.

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2000.

64 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm

"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.

Indian silverwork -- Peru -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Carcedo de Mufarech, Paloma.

Castillo, Luis Jaime.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

"The essays by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters and Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech were translated from the Spanish by Debra Nagao. The bibliography was edited by Jayne Kuchna"--Title page verso.

Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Nov. 3, 2000-Apr. 22, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).

"The essays by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters and Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech were translated from the Spanish by Debra Nagao."--T.p. verso.

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.

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