Tweezer Ornament

Tweezer Ornament

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Tweezer Ornament
CultureQuimbaya
Titles
  • Tweezer Ornament
Date1–800
PlaceColombia, South America
MediumGold
Dimensions1 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 1/8 in. (3.2 × 8.9 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.858
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913—2008), Houston, by at least August 20, 1993—2001 [1]; given to MFAH, 2001.

[1] Glassell Inventory- AG number between objects described on August 20, 1993.

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Five Ornaments in the Form of Tweezers
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.861.1-.5
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Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.860
front of object
Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.857
front of object
Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.856
Tweezer Ornament
Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.853
front of object
Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.850
Tweezer Ornament
Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.855
Tweezer Ornament
Tweezer Ornament
200 BC–200 AD
Gold
2001.854
front of object
Tweezers
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.852
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Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.851
front of object
Tweezer Ornament
100 BC–800 AD
Gold
2001.859
photo shop pasting of separate images of two-part object
Crown adorned with ornaments depicting the Sun God
c. 300
Gold
2001.863.A,.B