Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1924 using funds donated by MAI trustee Harmon W. Hendricks (1846-1928).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Quechua or Aymara (attributed)
- Presenter/funding source
- Harmon W. Hendricks (Harmon Washington Hendricks), Non-Indian, 1846-1928
- Date created
- 1880-1920
- Object Name
- Shawl pin
- Media/Materials
- Silver-copper alloy, silver, metal wire, metal chain, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Hammered, cut, incised, bezel-set/stone-setting, soldered, jointed
- Dimensions
- 24.50 x 6.00 x 4.50 cm
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Indigenous Term
- ttipqui
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