Earrings with lattice designs
Earrings with lattice designs

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Earrings with lattice designs,

200 BCE–1600 CE

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y1973-79 a-b

Information

Title
Earrings with lattice designs
Dates

200 BCE–1600 CE

Medium
Gold
Dimensions
a: 5.3 × 7 × 0.7 cm (2 1/16 × 2 3/4 × 1/4 in.) b: 5.1 × 7 × 0.7 cm (2 × 2 3/4 × 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Hans A. Widenmann, Class of 1918, and Dorothy Widenmann Foundation
Object Number
y1973-79 a-b
Place Made

South America, Colombia, Caribbean plains

Culture
Sinú
Type
earrings, ornament
Materials
gold
Subject
geometric patterns

1973, purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum.

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