Bracelet Item Number: Sf564 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A wide bracelet of silvery metal bent into a tapering tube with a gap between the edges. Opposite each other across the gap are two small holes. There are textile impressions on the silver surface.
History Of Use
Generally considered a wrist protector (Tushingham et al). However the mummified body of an Incan boy sacrificed on a freezing mountain top in Chile also has the silver bracelets.
Narrative
Chimu or Chimu-Inca, Late Intermediate Period or Late Horizon; 900-1532 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Bracelet
- Identification Number
- Sf564
- Type of Item
- bracelet
- Material
- silver metal and copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut and silvered
- Overall
- height 10.0 cm, diameter 6.1 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 900 and 1532
- 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
- 0711/0066