Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; probably purchased from a local resident in 1907 during the Second Ecuador Expedition, led by Marshall H. Saville (1867-1935, MAI staff member) and funded by George Gustav Heye and his mother, Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye (1845-1915).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Tumaco–La Tolita (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Expedition leader
- Dr. Marshall H. Saville (Marshall Howard Saville/M.H. Saville/MHS), Non-Indian, 1867-1935
- Expedition
- Second Ecuador Expedition (1907)
- Expedition sponsor
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Marie A. Heye (Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye), Non-Indian, 1845-1915
- Date created
- 600 BC–AD 400
- Object Name
- Nose ornament/Nose ring
- Media/Materials
- Gold
- Techniques
- Hammered, cut
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
