Crown ? Ornament Item Number: Sf555 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A rectangular sheet of metal with two broken ends and three rows of regularly placed, broken staples, parallel to the straight edges. Disc imprints occur below the staples. In between, are two rows of incised designs of interlocking step frets. Small areas of a gilded layer are visible.
History Of Use
Originally, round bangles were suspended from the staples, their shadowy image remains as circles of thickened deposits. Metal work bangles were used frequently for headdresses like the one illustrated in Moseley (pl xv). This fragment may be part of a square crown, similar to Sf559. Metal work with round bangles, mechanically attached by staples is particularly typical of Vicus metal work (p.c., Sr. Alva, Bruning Museo, Lambayeque).
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period, contemporary with Moche 1 and 2; 0-200 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
The interlocking step design is variously interpreted as waves or twisting serpentine bodies.
Item History
What
- Name
- Crown ? Ornament
- Identification Number
- Sf555
- Type of Item
- ornament
- Material
- copper metal, gold metal and silver metal ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut, stapled, gilded and punched
- Overall
- height 0.15 cm, width 9.2 cm, depth 12.7 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- during 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
- 0711/0057