Tupu Pin

ca. 1400-1600 CE

6.4 cm 20 cm 0.3 cm

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Tupu (topu), is the Quechua language term for a pin. Tupu are an essential part of women's dress in the Andes, from Ecuador in the north to Northern Chile and Argentina in the south, and have been used since ancient times. Some early examples have been identified in archaologi...

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Acquired by Pope and Joan Atkins, Annapolis, Maryland, 1965-1966 [1]; given to Walters Art Museum, 2019.[1] While traveling in Ecuador
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pins

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