Inca figurines from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin: an analytical study of some typical and atypical productions
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2017
- handle: 10670/1.2hoqo0
- 0303-7495
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Bulletin de l'Institut français d'études andines
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Maria Filomena Guerra et al., « Inca figurines from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin: an analytical study of some typical and atypical productions », Bulletin de l'Institut français d'études andines, ID : 10670/1.2hoqo0
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"Fourteen hollow and one cast anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines produced in Incan times for ritual offerings from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin were selected to investigate the technologies and alloys used for their fabrication with portable optical microscopy and non-destructive XRF elemental analysis. This group of gold and silver figurines includes typical specimens of the Inca production, such as the four silver figurines from the Island Coati in Lake Titicaca and the two gold figurines from Pachacamac, as well as specimens that are seldom present in collections, which makes them atypical. In addition to the tall figurines with atypical hair or standing pose, one bicolour figurine (half silver, half gold) and another with coloured inlays were included in this study for comparison. The large majority of the silver specimens are made from very high quality alloys and the gold figurines are made from alloys containing low copper contents and silver ranging from 30wt% to 52wt%."