Shield with owl figure
Object type: Ornament
Department: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Culture: Moche
Artist: Moche artist(s)
Artist role: Artist
Date: 500–800 CE
Medium: Gilded copper, silvered copper, shell, beads, fibers, organic pseudomorphs
Dimensions: H. 10 1/2 × W. 10 1/2 × D. 1 in. (26.7 × 26.7 × 2.5 cm)
Classification: Metal-Ornaments
Geography:     Peru Piura region 
Credit line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986
Accession year: 1987
Tags: Owls