Vintage Sterling silver Tumi pendant

The tumi pendant represents an ancient peruvian lord. This lord was called Naylamp. Legend says he came up from overseas. Naylamp helped the people how to fish, how to farm the lands and create stuff with hands. Tumi is an old shaped knife what was used to sacrifice animals like the llama, alpaca. There were many kinds or Tumis or knives in old Peru country. Many of them were made of solid gold and other metals . One of the most famous Tumi was the Lambayeque Culture Tumi. Weight: 992 grams in 22 Kt solid gold , , 42 cms height , also with semi-precious stones, discovered in late 1936 or early 1937. Old peruvians did work the gold as they found it in the nature. And the gold nuggets in Nature is 92% of purity what means 22 karat. Unfortunately The famous Lambayeque Tumi was stolen and melted down in 1981. One of the burglars was captured with part of the booty already melted.