Fragment: Crown Item Number: Sf785 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Crown fragment: u-shaped piece of sheet metal with three parallel prongs and eleven evenly-spaced hooks arranged in rows. Gilded surface. One disc remains suspended from a hook.
History Of Use
Appear to be fragments from the upper edge of a crown similar to a square crown in this collection (Sf559). Square crowns would have had a wicker form inside to fit the head (p.c. Sr. W. Alva, Bruning Museum). The mechanical attachment of bangles by staples is typical of Vicus metalwork.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
The three prong projection is probably a stylized feather.
Item History
What
- Name
- Fragment: Crown
- Identification Number
- Sf785
- Type of Item
- crown
- Material
- silver metal ?, gold metal and copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, gilded, mechanically joined and cut
- Overall
- height 0.6 cm, width 5.8 cm, depth 4.2 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
- 0711/0287