Fragment: Crown Item Number: Sf787 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
U-shaped piece of sheet metal with three parallel prongs. Eleven evenly-spaced staples arranged in rows. Gilded surface.
History Of Use
Appear to be fragments from the upper edge of a crown similar to a square crown in this collection (Sf559). Square crowns would have had a wicker form inside to fit the head (p.c. Sr. W. Alva, Bruning Museum). The mechanical attachment of bangles by staples is a typical feature of Vicus metalwork.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period, 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
The three pronged projection is probably a stylized feather.
Item History
What
- Name
- Fragment: Crown
- Identification Number
- Sf787
- Type of Item
- crown
- Material
- gold metal, silver metal ? and copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut, gilded and mechanically joined
- Overall
- height 0.5 cm, width 5.5 cm, depth 4.5 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 201 BCE and 300
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- poor
- Accession Number
- 0711/0289