# Armband Depicting Horse and Rider with Animals

- By: Inca (Probably vicinity of Cuzco, Peru)
- Date: 16th century, after 1532
- Medium: Gold
- Classification: Metalwork
- Dimensions: 254 × 6.2 cm (10 × 2 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Peru
- Credit line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91892)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/26036f42-48ba-115c-5f33-6dc962d307ea/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

\[This\] flat sheet of gold ornament...demonstrate(s) the continuity of style and technique in the goldwork of Peru. The piece is important because it can be dated by the representation of a Spaniard in armor, seated on a horse, as having been made just at the time of the conquest. The artist indicated his unfamiliarited with a horse by portraying it with the cloven hooves of a llama. The feline, monkey, and bird motifs, all of which ad been used from the time of the Chavin horizon, are depicted with more assurance.

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