id: 119673 accession number: 1940.512 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.512 updated: Figurine Plaque, c. 300 BC-AD 200. Peru, South Coast, Paracas, 300 BC-AD 200 with modern etched enhancement?. Hammered and embossed gold-copper alloy; overall: 6.8 x 4.2 cm (2 11/16 x 1 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.512 title: Figurine Plaque title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 300 BC-AD 200 creation date earliest: -300 creation date latest: 200 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Peru, South Coast, Paracas, 300 BC-AD 200 with modern etched enhancement? technique: hammered and embossed gold-copper alloy department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 6.8 x 4.2 cm (2 11/16 x 1 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1940 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1940 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Tumbaga is an alloy made by blending gold with copper, which may give the gold a rosy hue. digital description: wall description: This small metal ornament represents a human figure wearing a cap, a tunic decorated with bird images, and a necklace of orange-pink spondylus shell sections. Such necklaces are found in Paracas mummy bundles, and are frequently represented in Paracas embroidered images. Spondylus shell does not grow in the cold water off the coast of Peru, and had to be imported hundreds of miles from what is now Ecuador. Virtually all ancient Peruvian cultures treasured spondylus shell for its color and rarity, and as a symbol of fertility. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.512/1940.512_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.512/1940.512_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.512/1940.512_full.tif