Bell Item Number: Sf543 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A spherical metal bell with a narrow slit in the bottom. There is a chip along the slit. One half of the bell has the raised features of a face; eyes, nose and a thick-lipped mouth with protruding tongue. Off-white tring and alpaca wool? wrapped around the shank.
History Of Use
Appears to be an individual bell of a larger jangler or tree-like arrangement of cast metal figures and pendant bells (Antze; Schmidt). These ornaments were fixed to upper ends of staffs and probably were used as a sign of authority or carried in dances as musical accompaniment.
Narrative
Early Chimu Style, Middle Horizon; 600-900 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Bell
- Identification Number
- Sf543
- Type of Item
- bell
- Material
- copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- cast
- Overall
- height 1.9 cm, diameter 1.8 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 600 and 900
- 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
- 0711/0046