Ornament (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1450–1550 (Late Horizon period)
- Culture/People
- probably Inka (Inca) (archaeological) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- General José Rufino Echenique, Non-Indian, 1808-1879
- Dr. Edward Gaffron (Carl Eduard Gaffron/Dr. Goffron), Non-Indian, 1861-1931
- Seller
- Dr. Edward Gaffron (Carl Eduard Gaffron/Dr. Goffron), Non-Indian, 1861-1931
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; said to have been presented to General José Rufino Echenique (1808-1879, President of Peru from 1852-1854) in 1853; inherited by his daughter, who sold it at an unknown date to Dr. Edward/Eduard Gaffron (1861-1931, a German physician and ophthalmologist who worked in Peru from the 1880s until about 1912 and amassed a huge collection of Peruvian antiquities); purchased by George Heye from Dr. Gaffron in 1912.
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- Place
- Peru
- See related items
- Inka (Inca) (archaeological)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 3/4877
- Barcode
- 034877.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Ornament (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Gold
- Techniques
- Hammered
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_36939