- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze ex-voto figure of a woman; perforated for suspension
- Long description
- Amulet, bronze ex-voto in the shape of a female figure with an elongated body, perforated for suspension. The figure is wearing a ?headdress and a ?neck ornament, it has large eyes, a protruding nose, and breasts, the hands are held in the front of the body, and there are vertical lines on the reverse of the body. [RB 30/05/2012]
- Geographical reference
- La Paz Department Ingavi Province Tiwanaku Municipality Tiwanaku [Tiahuanaco]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Bronze Metal, Process Cast, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 56 x 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1676 Other numbers: 3563
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Ornament, Amulet, Religious Object, Religious Offering, Pendant
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