The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Ear Ornament

Ear Ornament

c. 500–200 BCE
(?)
hammered and cut gold
Diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman 1957.400.1
Location: 232 Andean

Description

There seems to be a link between Chavín religion and appearance of the Andes’ first large precious-metal objects, made using revolutionary new metallurgical processes. Chavín may have developed these technical innovations to express the inexpressible, the "wholly other" nature of its religion. In many areas, elite men and women wore the ornaments as emblems of their ties to this religion, and eventually were buried with them. These 16 objects, along with three others not in the museum’s collection, are said to have come as a group from Chavín itself.
  • Juan Dalmau, Peru
    Joseph Brummer
    Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch
    Juan Dalmau, Peru; Joseph Brummer; Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch
  • The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, March 1958. 89
  • The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (organizer) (April 12-May 31, 1970).
    Norfolk, VA: Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences; April 12- May 13, 1970. " The Arts of Pre-Hispanic America."
    Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."
    Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; January 18-February 25, 1962. "The Imagination of Primitive Man", cat. no. 269, p. 162. no repr.
    Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; October 4 - November 5, 1961. "Twenty-five Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700B.C. - 1800 A.D." Cat. no. 6c, repr. in black and white, bottom.
  • {{cite web|title=Ear Ornament|url=false|author=|year=c. 500–200 BCE|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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