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Nose Ornament with Serpents and Long-necked Birds   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Nose Ornament with Serpents and Long-necked Birds
Description
A crucial element of Moche royal regalia was the nose ornament, whose imagery varies from benign to predatory. One ornament here depicts a human head, perhaps a ruler’s portrait, flanked by birds that attack human victims. In another, two supernatural decapitators brandish knives over a row of severed human heads. The third is an elegant composition that combines serpents with long-necked water birds. The Moche were among the Andes’ most inventive metalsmiths, and they developed many complex techniques for joining and enriching the surfaces of metals, which they usually worked by hammering rather than casting. The gold-and-silver ornaments were made by first joining gold and silver sheets through heating and hammering. Then came the relief decoration, followed by the selective removal of metal along the joins. Finally, the ornament was trimmed and polished.
Date 100
Medium Gold alloy and silver
Dimensions Overall: 7.6 x 13.9 cm (3 x 5 1/2 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Art of the Americas
Accession number
2005.177
Place of creation Peru, North Coast, Moche culture (50-800), Early Intermediate Period (AD 0-700)
Credit line Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.177

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