See a virtual reconstruction of this remarkable Moche shield. The intricate details of the shield convey movement, and reveal the skills of Moche metalsmiths in the first millennium CE, centuries before the rise of the Incas.
Shield with owl figure, 500–800 CE
Moche artist(s), Piura region, Peru
Gilded copper, silvered copper, shell, beads, fibers; H. 10 1/2 × W. 10 1/2 × D. 1 in. (26.7 × 26.7 × 2.5 cm)
Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986 (1987.394.56)
