Crown Item Number: Sf559 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Two sheet metal strips fastened together and folded to make a square. There are matching holes at the overlap. The top edge has twelve three-pronged protrusions which are broken off at varying heights. Hundreds of broken hooks are arranged in rows, covering the surface. Four unbroken hooks suspend metal discs. Many disc imprints are visible on the surface. Small areas of gilded surface are visible.
History Of Use
Square crowns like this one probably had a wicker form inside to fit the head (p.c. Sr. W. Alva, brunning museum). The use of bangles attached by staples is typical if Vicus metalwork.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period, 300 b.c-C.E. 200.
Iconographic Meaning
The three pronged projections are probably stylized feathers.
Item History
What
- Name
- Crown
- Identification Number
- Sf559 a-b
- Type of Item
- crown
- Material
- silver metal ?, gold metal and copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut, gilded and stapled
- Overall
- height 16.9 cm, width 18.5 cm, depth 15.7 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
- 0711/0061 a-b