Disk (Shield Cover) 14th-15th century Chimú Made of thin sheet silver, this disk is one of at least eleven highly similar examples reportedly found in a burial, or burials, on Perus north coast. The disks are all between thirty and thirty-five centimeters in diameter, and share the same basic composition, in which four concentric bands of repoussé ornament (a design hammered in relief from the back of the disk) surround a central undecorated convex boss. The imagery in each band is distinct from the others on a disk, and consists of one or several repeated motifs. The iconography varies from disk to disk, but each follows one of four distinct patterns (see also Met object number 1978.412.144). The outermost band of this disk features a motif--perhaps a monkey holding a bird--that is repeated around the entire circumference. The three inner registers contain frontal, anthropomorphic figures with crescent headdresses—different in each band—that appear to hold or gesture to sea birds and