Fragment: Crown Item Number: Sf790 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Small sheet metal crown fragment with staple fragment attached.
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.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
The three prong projection is probably a stylized feather.
Item History
What
- Name
- Fragment: Crown
- Identification Number
- Sf790
- Type of Item
- crown
- Material
- copper metal, silver metal ? and gold metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, gilded, mechanically joined and cut
- Overall
- height 0.7 cm, width 1.9 cm, depth 2.0 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
- 0711/0292