Fragment: Crown Item Number: Sf788 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Crown fragment; flat gilded sheet metal with two small round discs attached with metal staples and cut out rows of fluted, triangular and circular shapes. Numerous staple fragments. Some gilded surface visible.
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 typical of Vicus metalwork.
Iconographic Meaning
The three prong projection is probably a stylized feather.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Fragment: Crown
- Identification Number
- Sf788
- Type of Item
- crown
- Material
- copper metal, silver metal ? and gold metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut, mechanically joined and gilded
- Overall
- height 0.8 cm, width 10.4 cm, depth 7.1 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 301 BCE and 200
- 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
- 0711/0290