These figurines are claimed to derive from a cache of offerings found on the southern coast of Peru. These miniature camelid figurines, which are composed of marine Spondylus shell, stand out as popular offerings created and used by Inca populations during the Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE).

These spoons are claimed to derive from a cache of offerings found on the southern coast of Peru. The objects, however, reflect principally north coast Chimú designs. This pair of small spoons, possibly used for lime or snuff, bear finials that represent a bird overtaking a human figure.

After a period of surrealist figurative painting in his native Japan in the 1950s, On Kawara shifted his focus to the recording of time in paintings that bear the date on which they are created. The alphanumeric structure of month, number, and year (or number, month, and year, depending on where you are) is as powerful as it is ubiquitous, and no amount of exposition could equal a date's functional and symbolic significance.

The Chimú capital was located at Chan Chan, where the artistic production of specialized artisans—potters, metallurgists, bead makers, woodworkers, and weavers—was strictly overseen by the ruling elite. Some raw materials were locally unavailable, such as brilliantly colored feathers, and provided through contact with the outside populations of the Amazonian Basin. 

The Kota and related peoples preserved the relics of honored ancestral leaders in baskets guarded by reliquary figures. Affixed to the baskets, the figures were carved from a single piece of wood and covered in metal.

On Kawara made the "Today" series of paintings between 1966 and 2013. In these paintings, Kawara uses a systematic approach to document the passage of time. They are made on the date referred to in the title and if they are not finished by midnight of that date, they are destroyed. The order of information and the language used follow the convention of the country in which the painting was executed.