Pair of Earrings

1000–1500

Artist unknown (Tairona)
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Tairona
Title: Pair of Earrings
Place: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1000–1500
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: Each w: W.: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1973.330a-b
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Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of
Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 261, cat. 204 (ill.).

Everett D. Rassiga (1922–2003), New York, by Jan. 30, 1973 [incoming receipt RX9093, Jan. 30, 1973; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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