Shield with owl figure, by Moche artist(s), 500–800 CE
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Shield with owl figure

Moche artist(s)

500–800 CE

Medium
Gilded copper, silvered copper, shell, beads, fibers
Classification
Metal-Ornaments
Dimensions
H. 10 1/2 × W. 10 1/2 × D. 1 in. (26.7 × 26.7 × 2.5 cm)
Culture
Moche
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Credit line
Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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