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Jewellery tongs

These tweezers are decorated with 3 rows of silver wire spirals that are soldered soldered on the inside. Such objects were found by Uhle in the Late Ica I and II phases (Root). A similarly decorated pair of gold tweezers from the Gretzer Collection in the Ethnological Museum Berlin (inv. no. V A 31786) was assigned to the Ica culture (Schuler-Schöming). (Schuler-Schöming). However, there are similar tweezers from the Chimú-Inca culture (1300-1500) (Carcedo de Mufarech).

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ica-Chincha (fraglich)
Object type
archaeological objects
Dimensions
13 x 84 x 27 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 32357
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
1000-1470
Period/Style
Late intermediate period
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (south) -> Ica (Region) -> Ica (Province) -> Ica (City)

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

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