Moche to Chimu Copper Tweezers / Pincers

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche to Chimu culture, ca. 800 to 1300 CE. A collection of 4 copper pincers or tweezers each with a pair of coiled spirals to the sides. Twe

Pre-Columbian Lambayeque (Moche Chimu) Copper Breast Plate, copper plaque with hand chased repoussé scene, central figure with two animals, and two snakes at his feet. On velvet lined mount. 1.5lb

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Northern Coast of Peru, Moche culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE; Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 AD. A fine ensemble of 3 copper tumis, each presenting flattened form

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche and Chimu cultures ca. 100 BCE to 1470 CE. A collection of 8 copper bells of various forms and 2 miniature vessels, all for rituali

DESCRIPTION: A collection of three Pre-Columbian copper tweezers. Features two smaller tweezers and a larger rotund tweezer. These items have been appraised and authenticated by Carol Damian, Master o

Pre-Columbian Inca Moche/Chimu Copper Ring, Gold and Silver Gilded, Visible Iridescence From Oxidization, Ex-Private Palm Beach Collection, Origin: South America, Age: 800-1000 A.D. Measures 1 1/2" x

Pre-Columbian Inca Moche/Chimu silver tweezers, set of 5, one tweezer has carved lines on both sides of it. The Chimu used tweezers as part of their daily life to pluck beards, eyebrows, etc. Origin:

Pre-Columbian Inca Moche/Chimu silver tweezers, The Chimu used tweezers as part of their daily life to pluck beards, eyebrows, etc. Origin: South America. Age: 800-1000 A.D. Measures 2 1/4" L x 3/4" W

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chimu-Inca, ca. 100 to 1500 CE. Nice collection of four silver and one copper tweezer. These were used by the men (and assumptively women as

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Chimu, and Inca, ca. 100 to 1532 CE. A wonderful gathering of 8 ancient copper implements from 3 distinct ancient Peruvian cultures. First is a Mo

A choice Chimu copper mantle ornament from Peru, ca. 1100 – 1450 AD. This heavy flared tweezer type example is 2” long, has strong mineral deposits and is perforated at the top for suspen

A rare Moche copper mantle ornament from Peru, ca. 400 – 700 AD. This ornate tweezer type is 1-1/4” long and features nice decorative elements. Heavy mineral encrustation.

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche culture, ca. 300 to 500 CE. This is a spectacular and rare copper depiction of the god Ai Apaec (also Ai Apec) as a near life-sized figure! This copper being is com

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 400 to 800 CE. An incredible copper headdress, made of a hammered flat sheet of copper with a symmetrical body and the three-dimensional head of a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Pampa Grande, ca. 550 to 700 CE. An impressively preserved, enigmatic, hammered-copper funerary mask representing the stylized head of an elite woman or man, with feat

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 400 to 800 CE. An incredible copper disc that may have been worn as a pectoral, the three-dimensional head of a lord pro

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A copper tumi ritual knife presenting a lengthy, trapezoidal body and a rounded blade surmounted by the figure of a warrior seated on one kne

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche I or II, ca. 100 to 300 CE. An extremely rare and oh so fine ceremonial copper tumi adorned with the head of a lord or perhaps belonging to the chief Mochica dei

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A lovely cast-copper dagger with an elongated body, a pointed tip, and a curved openwork finial depicting an abstract jaguar deity. The fel

**Originally Listed At $1800** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A very unique as well as musical tumi rattle, with an openwork body that contains percussive rattles and a mos

ceramic, colour pigments, a) stirrup vessel: seated figure of death with skull like facial features, Moche / Lambayeque, Late Intermediate Period, c. 700-1000 AD, h: 19.5 cm b) Mother and Child, Moche

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A hammered copper knife blade called a "tumi" with a lengthy, rectangular body and a thick tubular tang. The knife is surmounted by a bird, p

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche Culture, ca. 100 BCE to 100 CE. An impressive Moche tumi, a ceremonial knife formed from high-quality copper - 99% - with a lord king warrior finial holding a ma

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A fascinating pair of large burial sandals, each presenting as a sheet of copper in the form of the sole of a shoe with a narrow, rounded hee