Ornament Item Number: Sf772 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A sheet metal cone with an unfastened seam. There is a single punched hole opposite the seam near the apex.
History Of Use
Similar cones were found at the Loma Negra site in the Vicus area. Schaffer suggests the Loma Negra cones may have been attached to the ends of sashes and headbands. Several of the cones in this collection have remnants of staples in the apex hole which suggests they may have been attached to or suspended from something metal.
Narrative
Possibly Vicus, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Ornament
- Identification Number
- Sf772
- Type of Item
- ornament
- Material
- copper metal, silver metal ? and gold metal ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, punched, gilded ? and cut
- Overall
- height 3.3 cm, diameter 3.9 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 301 BCE and 200
- 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
- 0711/0274