Shell collar and medallion

Shell collar and medallion

Public Domain

CultureChancay
Titles
  • Shell collar and medallion
Date1300–1450
PlacePeru
MediumSpondylus shell
Dimensions10 1/2 × 13 1/4 × 1/4 in. (26.7 × 33.7 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1357.1,.2
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, 1968 [Glassell Album #4, slide dated "DEC 67"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1357.1,.2

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