id:			119673
accession number:	1940.512
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.512
updated:		2021-03-27 12:14:03.436000

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
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creation date:			c. 300 BC-AD 200
creation date earliest:		-300
creation date latest:		200
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creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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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
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measurements: Overall: 6.8 x 4.2 cm (2 11/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
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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
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1940
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fun fact: 
<em>Tumbaga</em> is an alloy made by blending gold with copper, which may give the gold a rosy hue.

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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.
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