Pair of ornaments
Pair of ornaments

On view

Art of the Ancient Americas

Pair of ornaments,

1100–1500

Carchi
y1974-3 a-b

Information

Title
Pair of ornaments
Dates

1100–1500

Medium
Gold
Dimensions
each: 5.5 × 17.1 × 0.6 cm (2 3/16 × 6 3/4 × 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Hans A. Widenmann, Class of 1918, and Dorothy Widenmann Foundation
Object Number
y1974-3 a-b
Place Made

South America, Ecuador

Marks/Labels/Seals
Painted on back of a: YE354 Painted on back of b: YE355
Period
Pre-Columbian Ecuadorian periods
Type
ornament
Materials
gold
Subject
figures (representations), birds

1974, purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum.

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