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Clothes pin
Clothing pin or tupu with a disc at the top on which are radiant incision lines.‖ The Incas refer to the Tiwanaku region as their place of origin in much of their origin stories. The Incas also considered the Sun very important, because in the cold highlands the Sun was known as the giver of life (we recognize this Sun motif here, for example, in the depicted tupu). The stars were his children, of…
Type of item
- Object Type: pin (jewelry)
- pin (jewelry)
- Pin
Date
- 0600/1000
Medium
- Material: copper
- copper
- Copper
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 0600
- 0600/1000
Provenance
- 1946-10-04
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-2593-30a
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/745848
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- ambergris
- wax
Year
- 600
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z