Nose ornament with serpentine designs
Nose ornament with serpentine designs

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Nose ornament with serpentine designs,

200 BCE–100 CE

Salinar
Early Intermediate Period
1999-259

Information

Title
Nose ornament with serpentine designs
Dates

200 BCE–100 CE

Medium
Gold
Dimensions
5.6 × 13 × 0.3 cm (2 3/16 × 5 1/8 × 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift in honor of Allen Rosenbaum
Object Number
1999-259
Place Made

South America, Peru, North coast

Culture
Salinar
Period
Early Intermediate period, Early Intermediate period
Type
nose ornaments, ornament
Materials
gold
Subject
reptiles

1999, Dr. Daniel Rifkin and Ruth Crowe Rifkin, New York, gift to the Princeton University Art Museum

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