Pin or Tupu with Bird

CultureInca (Inka)
Titles
  • Pin or Tupu with Bird
Date1200–1532 AD
MediumBone
DimensionsOverall: 6 13/16 × 13/16 × 1/8 in. (17.3 × 2.1 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1371
Not on view

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Provenance(Lot #306 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, November 23 & 24, 1982. Sale #4968);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1982 [Glassell Album #10, slide dated "NOV 82"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1371

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