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Snuff Tablet
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated 1–650 CE. Recorded culture or place: Peru, North Highlands, Recuay style.
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- Museum title
- Snuff Tablet
- Date
- 1–650 CE
- Culture / origin
- Peru, North Highlands, Recuay style
- Materials and technique
- wood with gold foil
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.4 x 3 x 1.1 cm (4 7/8 x 1 3/16 x 7/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1996.303
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Both of these objects feature a creature known as the "Recuay feline," although it could also refer to a fox, dog, or viscacha (a rodent). Whatever its identity, the prominent crest on its head ties it to the supernatural realm, a connection underlined by the deity head that also appears on the dipper and by the ritual function of snuff tablets, which were used to inhale hallucinogenic snuffs during religious ceremonies.
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