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Needle

The Museum 5 Kontinente in Munich owns a very similar garment pin from the Norbert Mayrock collection, the upper part of which, according to Schindler, depicts two stylised fish with a common head and which could be attributed to the Chimú culture. culture. Similar motifs on garment pins can also be attributed to the Inca period (see e.g. Metropolitan Museum no. 1987.394.556).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú (möglich)
Object type
fibulae
Dimensions
4 x 240 x 30 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 32014
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
ca. 1000-1534
Period/Style
Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (middle) -> Lima (Region) -> Lima (City) -> Chuquitanta (City)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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