Object class: Carvings (visual works) / Collection place: Moche valley, La Libertad Region, Northern Peru / Culture or time period: Peruvian sequence - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Staff, accession number 16-20456, described as Mochica staff. Carved wooden, short staff with finial carved in the form of a single deity. deity is standing, holding long spear, wearing a crenulated crown decorated with inlays of shell beads (3) and with a serpent emerging from his mouth. he wears a serpent belt around his waist as well. Staff is round and has a pointed end.

Hearst Museum object titled Staff fragment, accession number 16-20405, described as Mochica staff fragment. Wood staff fragment (top) with 3 linear incised grooves, one groove containing 6 free moving beads. One end of staff carved to point. Other end broken.

Hearst Museum object titled Staff w/ figure, accession number 4-2236, described as Short heavy wooden staff of Algarobe wood, with human figure, somewhat worn, carved at top.

Hearst Museum object titled Tube: carved: inlaid, accession number 4-2762, described as Hollow bone tube nicely carved with bird figures and inlaid with turquoise, probably an ear plug. Counterpart of 2763.

Hearst Museum object titled Tube: carved: inlaid: brk, accession number 4-2763, described as Hollow bone cylinder, elaborately carved, inlaid with turquoise. Broken.