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Clothes pin
Clothes pin or tupu with human head.‖ Museum and private collections around the world house thousands of gold, silver and copper objects from Andean cultures including the Chimú. However, only a small proportion of these objects have been recovered within a scientific excavation, most have been looted from tombs and then sold on the international art market. This makes the provenance and dating of…
Type of item
- Object Type: pin (jewelry)
- pin (jewelry)
- Pin
Date
- 1000/1450
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
- 1000
- 1000/1450
Provenance
- 1956-07-30
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-3344-7
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/761636
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- ambergris
- metal
Year
- 1000
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