Tupu

Museum number:
16-14982a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm211614982a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.2921
Description:
Shawl pin with penchant multi-jointed fish; a) shawl pin (tupu): repousse silver head with floral design surmounted by bird; some openwork; 1. included pin 30.5 cm; b) silver multi-jointed fish with green glass eyes (1 missing); silver chain to attach fish as pendant from tupu; length of fish 20 cm.
Donor:
Isabel T. Kelly
Collection place:
Bolivia
Verbatim coll. place:
Bolivia
Collector:
Isabel T. Kelly
Collection date:
ca. 1958
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tupus
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1973
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tupu, accession number 16-14982a,b, described as Shawl pin with penchant multi-jointed fish; a) shawl pin (tupu): repousse silver head with floral design surmounted by bird; some openwork; 1. included pin 30.5 cm; b) silver multi-jointed fish with green glass eyes (1 missing); silver chain to attach fish as pendant from tupu; length of fish 20 cm.

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