Maker: Unknown, Finial or Ornament in the Shape of Two Hunters Carrying a Deer,  400–700, Copper or copper alloy, 6 × × 2 cm (2 3/8 × 2 7/16 × 13/16 in.), During the declining years of the Moche empire of the North Coast of Peru, metalsmiths employed increasingly complex methods of casting metals, such as copper and copper alloys. In this small, fairly rough work, created in several stages using the lost-wax technique, two hunters carry a dead stag. Both hunters wear feathered headdresses and carry bags on their backs.

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