Plaque Item Number: Sf696 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Elongated, bell-shaped, embossed yellow metal plume with a thin pointed protrusion, above which is a rounded section with tear-drop eyes and a thin nose. Two rows of dots across top curve and single row of dots around outside edge, and in three bands across. Long, curly tailed creature in profile: three across the plaque and two sideways at the bottom.
History Of Use
Sheet metal ornaments with gold surfaces were used to decorate clothing and headdresses as well as furnishings. Probably a metal plume for a headdress, similar to ones in Emmerich.
Iconographic Meaning
The ornament is in the shape of a feather. The base of the feather has a face with Lambayeque style of eye in teardrop shape. A monkey-like animal is repeated over the rest of the plume.
Narrative
Lambayeque or Chimu, Late Intermediate Period; 900-1476 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Plaque
- Identification Number
- Sf696
- Type of Item
- plaque
- Material
- silver metal ? and gold metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut and repousse
- Overall
- height 16.4 cm, width 6.1 cm, depth 0.1 cm
Who
- Culture
- Chimu ? or Lambayeque ?
- Previous Owner
- Anonymous
- Received from
- Anonymous (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 900 and 1476
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0711/0198