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Nose Ornament Depicting a Male Shaman

Nose Ornament Depicting a Male Shaman

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Nose Ornament Depicting a Male Shaman
Artist
CultureMoche
Titles
  • Nose Ornament Depicting a Male Shaman
  • Nose Ornament
Date100–800 AD
PlacePeru
MediumGold alloy
DimensionsOverall: 4 7/16 × 6 11/16 × 9/16 in. (11.3 × 17 × 1.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.537
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
209M Jones Galleries
Exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1967 [Glassell Album #4, slide dated "DEC 67"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.537
Published References Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America (1976) fig. 394

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Gold-copper alloy (tumbaga)
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front of objects
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Gold or gold alloy
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Disk
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400–1000 AD
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front of object
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200 BC–400 AD
Gold
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front of object
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200 BC–400 AD
Gold
2010.599
front of object
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting an Octopus
200 BC–400 AD
Gold
2010.602
Nose Ornament Depicting an Octopus
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting an Octopus
200 BC–400 AD
Gold, silver coating
2010.601
Nose Ornament Depicting Two Facing Felines
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting Two Facing Felines
200 BC–400 AD
Gold
2010.618
front of object
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting an Octopus
200 BC–400 AD
Gold
2010.603
Nose Ornament Depicting a Feline Face
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting a Feline Face
200 BC–400 AD
Gold
2010.596
Nose Ornament Depicting a Vilca Tree Deity
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting a Vilca Tree Deity
100–800 AD
Gold
2010.543
front of object
Unknown Central and South American
Nose Ornament Depicting a Feline Face
200 BC–400 AD
Gold
2010.594
Unknown Central and South American