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Clothes pin
This also probably tin-bronze tupu from the Late Horizon (Inca) has the head of a llama at the end. The llama (and also the related alpaca) was the most important pet in the Andes. It provided meat, wool, fat and bone. In addition, the llama served as a pack animal and as an offering. Because of this great importance, llamas are often depicted in Andean iconography.‖ The tupu is a clothing pin use…
Type of item
- Object Type: pin (jewelry)
- pin (jewelry)
- Pin
Date
- 1250/1532
Medium
- Material: tin
- tin
- Tin
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1250
- 1250/1532
Provenance
- 1946-10-04
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-2593-66
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/745887
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- alpaca (wool)
- wool (hair material)
- wax
Year
- 1250
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