© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Circular Tweezers

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureChimu or Inka

PeriodLate Intermediate - Late Horizon

Date1440-1532 CE

MediumGold-copper alloy

Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II

Dimensions1 x 1/2 in. (2.5 x 1.3 cm)

Object number1992.015.292

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - April 1996
Tears of the Moon: Ancient American Precious Metals from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, October 16, 1996 - October 16, 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 218-19, figure 499.

ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Sotheby's New York, 1982.

Status

On view

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