Beads Item Number: Sf667 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
463 small, black stone beads and one green stone bead are interspersed with 7 golden ellipsoid beads of rolled metal. One cylindrical bead with closed ends and an embossed figure on its golden surface is positioned centrally. The embossed figure is frontal with arms outspread. Details of a semi-lunar headdress, ear spools and decorated chin strap outline a face with generalized features. A lower tunic border or loincloth is shown. There are traces or red pigment on the bead. One rolled bead is lighter in colour and more tarnished than the other.
History Of Use
The embossed deity figure on the cylindrical bead is Chimu in style (north coast, 750-1476 C.E.). However, the other beads are not necessarily the same period as these beads. All have been recently restrung. The embossed bead may originally have been part of a necklace of similar beads, like extant examples.
Narrative
Pre-Conquest, before 1532 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Beads
- Identification Number
- Sf667
- Type of Item
- bead
- Material
- plastic, pigment, silver metal ?, copper metal ?, gold metal and stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- pecked, hammered, embossed, gilded ?, rolled, cut, drilled and polished
- Overall
- diameter 29.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- before 1532
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0711/0169