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| Type of Object: | Ritual Object |
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| Materials: | Silver |
| Measurements: | Size varies from 10 cm. to 45 cm. |
| Date or Period: | Colonial (1533-1825) |
| Maker: | Quechua, Aymara and Kallawaya |
| Designated List Section: | VII K Colonial and Republican Religious Art -- Garment Pin |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 12/07/01 |
| Photograph: | National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) |
| Copyright: | National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Garment pins (tupu/prendedor) are made of copper, bronze, brass, silver, gold, or tumbaga. A large pin with a long shaft (15 cm.) that usually terminates with flat, discoid head (4 cm.) often embossed with design. Some heads are inlaid with semi-precious stone. This example of a breast pin is finished in decorated plate with a two-headed eagle, spoons, floral and geometrical elements. Garment pins are used in special personal costumes, for ritual fertility festivals and during religious festivities. | |
| Keywords: | |
| liturgical object, pin, silver, |
