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Nose Ornament

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Nose Ornament

Date:: 1st–5th century
Geography:: Colombia or Ecuador
Culture:: Tolita-Tumaco
Medium:: Gold, silver
Dimensions:: H.1 7/8 x W. 3 in. (4.8 x 7.6 cm)
Classification:: Metal-Ornaments
Credit Line:: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Accession Number:: 1979.206.1136

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 357

Provenance

[Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, until 1965]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1965, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1965–1978
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What
Metal (59,619)

Costume (43,644)

Silver (14,061)

Gold (12,485)

Jewelry (7,527)

Nose ornaments (169)
Where
South America (4,532)

Colombia (388)
In the Museum
Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (11,541)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Northern Andes, 1–500A.D.

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