Ornament Item Number: Sf775 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Three sheet metal discs each with a hole near one edge. Fragments of metal staples remain in the holes of two discs. Small areas of a gilded surface are visible where the green deposit has chipped off.
History Of Use
Small discs like these are mechanically fastened by staples to adornments, like masks and crowns belonging to the Vicus style (Moseley, pl. XV; Disselhoff and Tushingham, pl.29).
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Ornament
- Identification Number
- Sf775
- Type of Item
- ornament
- Material
- copper metal, silver metal ? and gold metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut and gilded
- Overall
- height 0.1 cm, diameter 1.8 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
- 0711/0277