shawl-pin
- Museum number
- Am1995,13.3
- Description
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Shawl pin; made of silver alloy; spoon-shaped pin with long pointed handle, loop on either side above bowl of spoon; bowl etched with flower; sticker reading "12" stuck on back of bowl.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 22 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 523 - letter from Anita Schrader 29.5.1990
'Re the Peruvian material - the shawl pins are 19th century, from the Cuzco/Sicuani region. They were collected by a German ethnographer called Gertrude Solari ... She told me that there was no superfluous iconography in Quechua art - and that the flower and bird symbols on some of the pins - called 'tupos' - referred to the Pachamama, mother earth ...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1995
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for entire collection.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1995,13.3