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Benson, \"A Moche 'Spatula,'\" <i>Metropolitan Museum Journal, Metropolitan Museum of Art</i> vol. 18 (1984): 39-52.","citation":"Elizabeth P. Benson, \"A Moche 'Spatula,'\" <i>Metropolitan Museum Journal, Metropolitan Museum of Art</i> vol. 18 (1984): 39-52., fig. 16, pp. 39–52 (illus.)","date":1984,"id":2534,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/5966478749"},{"boilertext":"Christopher Donnan, <i>Moche Art of Peru: Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication</i> (Los Angeles: UCLA, Museum of Cultural History, 1978).","citation":"Christopher Donnan, <i>Moche Art of Peru: Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication</i> (Los Angeles: UCLA, Museum of Cultural History, 1978)., cat. no. 30 (illus.)","date":1978,"id":2578,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/4135684"},{"boilertext":"Julie Jones, <i>Pre-Columbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections</i> (New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1969).","citation":"Julie Jones, <i>Pre-Columbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections</i> (New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1969)., cat. no. 249 (illus.)","date":1969,"id":2621,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/58491"},{"boilertext":"Julie Jones, \"Mochica Works of Art in Metal: A Review,\" in <i>Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America</i>, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1979)","citation":"Julie Jones, \"Mochica Works of Art in Metal: A Review,\" in <i>Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America</i>, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1979), fig. 28 (illus.)","date":1979,"id":2622,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/6646772"},{"boilertext":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)","citation":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 110","date":2013,"id":1994,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/865020505"},{"boilertext":"Alan Lapiner,<i> Pre-Columbian Art of South America</i> (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976).","citation":"Alan Lapiner,<i> Pre-Columbian Art of South America</i> (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976)., cat. no. 346 (illus.)","date":1976,"id":2793,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/1177648"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2009,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 69 (2010): p. 51-85.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2009,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 69 (2010): p. 51-85., pp. 62–63 (illus.)","date":2010,"id":1248,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/41757697"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":13506,"period":"Early Intermediate Period","alphasort":"Intermediate, Early","begindate":-200,"enddate":500,"displayperiod":"Early Intermediate Period","displaydate":null}],"department":"Art of the Ancient Americas","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199317,"term":"Art of the Ancient Americas","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 500-1000","dateend":800,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Sacrificial knife with finial depicting a human and feline","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"2009-129","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Spear-throwers, which enhance the power behind hurled darts, were the primary ranged weapons used by the Mochica. The example displayed here, composed of a bronze substructure with brown and black stone inlay, was likely used only for ceremonial purposes. The addition of a feline atop the handle suggests parallels between war and the hunt, as does the small deer that likely served as the burl on another ceremonial spear-thrower. The same type of spear-thrower is wielded by the mythical wrinkly-faced man who faces an anthropomorphic jaguar on the finial of a blade used to pierce the jugular of sacrificial war captives. The same two mythical figures face off on an ornamental crescent-shaped object. Here, they engage in melee combat, with the wrinkly-faced man gripping the feline’s hair to take it captive.\n","remarks":"AAA3_20-T3G-3_CLA_FA_7_17_25.pdf - Day 1 installation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tSaid to have been purchased from Louis Slavitz (1907-1992; dealer), New York [1]; by 1969, Sue and John Tishman collection, New York [2]; passed to Sue Tishman (-2005); passed to her estate; March 2007, purchased by the David Bernstein Fine Art, New York (M7050) [3]; October 13, 2009, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tNotes:\n\t<br />\n\t[1] According to personal communication between David Bernstein, Robert Sonin, and Bryan Just, 2009. It was also said this purchase was on the advice of Junius Bird.\n\t<br />\n\t[2] This object was included in the 1969 exhibition Pre-Columbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections, The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, cat. no. 249, loaned by Mr. and Mrs. John Tishman.\n\t<br />\n\t[3] According to correspondence dated November 6, 2008, between John L. Tishman and David Bernstein\n\t<br />\n</p>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":600,"sortnumber":"2009  129","published_date":"2026-02-11 12:16:45.199904","objectid":57132,"dimensions":"27.3 × 7.6 × 4.4 cm (10 3/4 × 3 × 1 3/4 in.)","on_view":true}