Nose Ring with Pierced Triangle and Diamond Decoration

1000-1521 (Pre-Columbian or Early Conquest)

3.3 cm 1.7 cm 4 cm

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This ornament was a nose ring, fastened with the help of a small post that passed through the septum and emerged at each side of the small cleft shown here. Nose rings seem to have been a particularly important form of decoration for Central American peoples. People of the Chi...

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[Found at a graveyard between Divalá (a village on the outskirts of settled Panama, thirty miles west of David in the province of Chiriqui) and Costa Rica, Spring 1909]; Tiffany & Co. New York, 1910, by purchase [from ""Indians,"" see December 29, 1910 correspondance from Tiffany & Co. to Henry Walters]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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