num_pages: 64
description: A symbol of power and prestige in ancient Peru, silver also held religious significance, its soft cool sheen symbolizing the moon, a female deity. This beautiful book presents objects of silver—items of personal adornment, tomb offerings, and miniatures—from several Peruvian cultures that thrived along the coastal and highland regions of the Andes from the first millennium B.C. to the Spanish conquest of 1532-34. Excavated from the sites of such cultures as the Moche, the Lambayeque, the Chimú, and the Inka, these extremely rare and lovely objects of silver shed new light on a fascinating civilization.
language: English
title: Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru
titlecomplete: Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art