Pin Item Number: Sf531 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A tapering metal pin with two hollow round beads and a thin disc impaled on it through central holes. The blunt end of the pin is flattened, bent at a right angle, and the end of it is turned under into a loop. The beads are both assembled by joining hemispherical parts at the equator.
History Of Use
Possibly part of a headdress (Alan Sawyer).
Narrative
Possibly Chimu, Late Intermediate Period; 900-1450 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Pin
- Identification Number
- Sf531
- Type of Item
- pin
- Material
- silver metal and copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut and soldered
- Overall
- height 12.0 cm, diameter 2.5 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 900 and 1450
- 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
- 0711/0034