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ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tupu (Woman's Mantle Pin) with Incised Pattern

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureChimu/Inka

PeriodLate Intermediate - Late Horizon

Date1440-1532 CE

MediumSilver alloy

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

Dimensions6 3/4 x 5/8 in. (17.1 x 1.6 cm)

Object number1992.015.257

Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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), 216-17, figure 484.

ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Louis Slavitz (1907-1992), New York, New York, 1969.

Status

On view

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