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Pair of Earrings

Mapuche

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Mapuche. Pair of Earrings, 18th–19th century. Silver, a: 5 5/16 x 3 1/2 x 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8.9 x 0.3 cm.) b: 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 x 3/8 in. ( 13 x 8.6 x 1 cm.). Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 36.931a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Culture

Mapuche

Title

Pair of Earrings

Date

18th–19th century

Geography

Place made: Chile

Medium

Silver

Classification

Jewelry

Dimensions

a: 5 5/16 x 3 1/2 x 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8.9 x 0.3 cm.) b: 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 x 3/8 in. ( 13 x 8.6 x 1 cm.)

Credit Line

Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund

Accession Number

36.931a-b

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    This pair of earrings was made by a Mapuche artist from Chile. They date to the 18th or 19th century. Despite the Spanish colonial presence in Chile and Argentina during this time, Mapuche artists and their culture resisted Spanish cultural encroachment.

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Artists and makers

Mapuche

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