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Tumi Knife-Shaped Ornament

Tumi Knife-Shaped Ornament

Public Domain

Artist
CultureChimú
Titles
  • Tumi Knife-Shaped Ornament
Date1100–1450 AD
PlacePeru, South America
MediumGold
DimensionsHeight: 2 1/2 inches
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1250
Non exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance(Lot #87 in Sotheby Parke Bernet's Fine Pre-Columbian Art and Colonial Paintings of Latin America, May 12, 1979 (Sale 4246));
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1979 [Glassell Album #9, documents reorganization of display at home on November 1979];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1250

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Miniature collar
Unknown Central and South American
Miniature collar
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.1279
Plume Ornament
Unknown Central and South American
Plume Ornament
100 BC–700 AD
Gold
2001.1271
Headdress
Unknown Central and South American
Headdress
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.1278
Pectoral
Unknown Central and South American
Pectoral
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.1280
Tumi (Ceremonial Knife) with Deity
Unknown Central and South American
Tumi (Ceremonial Knife) with Deity
800–1375 AD
Hammered, chased, and filigreed gold and turquoise inlay
2001.1072
Ornament with Deity Effigy
Unknown Central and South American
Ornament with Deity Effigy
100 BC–300 AD
Gold
2001.1307
Lime Container
Unknown Central and South American
Lime Container
200–1600 AD
Gold
2001.1230
Sword
Unknown African
Sword
1875–1900
Iron
97.1385
Spatula
Unknown Central and South American
Spatula
800–1500 AD
Gold
2001.1251
Pectoral in the Form of a Tumi Knife
Unknown Central and South American
Pectoral in the Form of a Tumi Knife
500–1550 AD
Gold
2004.2217
Lime Dipper
Unknown Central and South American
Lime Dipper
200 BC–1300 AD
Gold
2001.839
Funerary Mask
Unknown Central and South American
Funerary Mask
900–1100 AD
Gold with traces of mercurial oxide and other deposits
80.119
Unknown Central and South American