Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalRobe pin tupu, the head part designed as a butterfly
Garment pins like these were used by women to fasten their capes, lliclas, which they pinned to the top of their clothes. The dress itself was a length of cloth wrapped around the body. The motif of the garment pin is a butterfly, which was probably worshipped for its metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Inka-Kultur
- Object type
- Nadel
- Dimensions
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Length: 18 cm
Width: 4 cm - Material/Technique
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silver
moulded
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 053303
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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15th - 16th century AD.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Peru
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Change of physical control
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when
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1907
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- Provenance
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There is no confirmed provenance for this object. Huacho, a town on the north coast of Peru, is indicated as the place of acquisition.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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