Pin Item Number: 86.224.183 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Hammered silver pin (tupu) embellished at the top with a hunchback figure squatting on a box of open meshwork in the front and back. The figure's arms are resting on his knees, and he holds his hands to his mouth. On his shoulders are two sticks tied in a tumpline that hangs over his chest. He has a long face with a prominent nose and two big oval eyes and wears a conical cap decorated in front with an inverted U-shaped ornament. CONDITION: good; one eye is missing.
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Item History
- Made between 1100 and 1400
What
- Name
- Pin
- Identification Number
- 86.224.183
- Type of Item
- pin
- Material
- silver metal
- Overall
- length 0.5625 in, width 0.5 in, height 10.75 in
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1100 and 1400
Other
- Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
- Classification
- Ornament