Ritual Spatula with a Clenched Fist

Ritual Spatula with a Clenched Fist

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Ritual Spatula with a Clenched Fist
CultureMoche
Titles
  • Ritual Spatula with a Clenched Fist
Date100–800 AD
PlacePeru
MediumBone with turquoise, shell, and stone inlays
Dimensions5 5/8 × 1 1/8 × 1 1/8 in. (14.3 × 2.9 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number86.391
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas
Object Type
Provenance[David Bernstein Fine Art, New York, until 1986]; purchased by MFAH, 1986.

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