Crown ? Ornament

Item number Sf555 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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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).