Ear Spool with Shell Mosaic
Unidentified Moche (Mochica) or Chancay maker
1250-1470
Shell and cane
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Meryl Landmann French and Kathleen Landmann Bissett
2013.62.114
Geography
Place Made: Central Coast Peru, Peru, South America
Place Made: North Coast Region, Peru, South America
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Frederick E. (1907-2003) and Constance M. (1912-2011) Landmann, date unknown; bequeathed to their daughters, Meryl Landmann French, West Dover, Vermont and Kathleen Landmann Bissett, Waterloo, Ontario; given to present, 2013.
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