NMAI 240654: Nose Ring

Primary Title:

NMAI 240654: Nose Ring

Alternate Title: Owner Object Name

Nose Ring

Keyword Type: Object Class

Sheathing

Keyword Type: Object Sub-class

Ring-Nose

Keyword Type: Owner Provenience Record Type

Accession docs/letters

Keyword Type: Exam Methods

Visual Microscopy

Identifier: Object Number

NMAI 240654

Identifier: Owner Accession Number

240654

Note: Owner Information Source

PreColumbian Master; Panama Gold

Note: Object Description

Large rounded nose ring. Now hollow, the gold sheathing would have covered an organic core. The ring is open at the end and there are gold caps at the ends. The ring is open along the interior as well. 12.5g

Note: Owner Accession

Panama; Colón Province, Panamá Province; ; ; Lago Alajuelo (Madden Lake). Excavated by Eva and Neville Harte. Presented by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Sackler

Note: Research Notes

(transferred to MCI for analysis July 2009)

Note: Condition Review

Good condition. There are light brown accretions on the interior where the substrate would have been. There are some dents in the sheathing and the ends are slightly crumpled.

Note: Follow-up Notes

Substrate?

Note: Analysis Recommendations

XRF X-ray radiograph ESEM-EDS

Time Period: Examination Date

1/30/2009

Place: Object Origin

Geographic Zone: Panamá/Colón Country: Panama Province: Colón/Panamá Province Site: Lago Alajuelo (Madden Lake) Place Time Period: Site Period

Place: Curation Location

Local place: CRC

Actor: Object Excavator

Harte, Eva and Neville A.

Actor: Owner Accession Source

Sackler, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. (Collected and Given/Collected and Presented, 1/1/1967)

Actor: Object Owner

NMAI

Actor: Examination Operator

ACH

Condition: Corrosion

Note: No corrosion

Condition: Coloration

Note: Gold surface coloration

Condition: Pseudomorphs

Note: None

Materials:

Gold Alloy Composite Unknown Not present Organic Note: Nose ring is gold alloy and would have originally had a substrate. Likely the substrate was organic/perishable as it is not present and there is not indication that the metal was deformed to remove interior

Technique: Fabrication Method

Hammered-Sheathing Note: Hammered sheet applied to substrate and polished/burnished? Relatively thick sheet

Technique: Joinery

Note: Mechanical Other/Unknown. Caps are mechanically joined to ring

Technique: Finishing

Note: The sheathing is highly polished on the exterior

Measurements:

Type:Number of Components Value:1 Units:components

PID	Type	Title	Metadata	URL
si_2772739		240654_0.63x_interior of ring	TitleInfo/title 240654_0.63x_interior of ring Abstract NMAI 240654 detail - photomicrograph (2009)	Download
si_2772740		240654_a 20090414 ach	TitleInfo/title 240654_a 20090414 ach Abstract NMAI 240654 overall, unnumbered side (2009)	Download
si_2772741		240654_b 20090414 ach	TitleInfo/title 240654_b 20090414 ach Abstract NMAI 240654 overall, numbered side (2009)	Download
si_568e85151a169		Analysis Results (NMAI 240654)	Idinfo/citation/citeinfo/origin ACH Idinfo/citation/citeinfo/pubdate Unpublished material Idinfo/citation/citeinfo/title Analysis Results (NMAI 240654) Idinfo/citation/citeinfo/geoform tabular digital data Idinfo/timeperd/timeinfo/rngdates/begdate 1/30/2009 Idinfo/timeperd/current observed Idinfo/status/progress Done Idinfo/status/update As Needed Idinfo/keywords/theme/themekt None Idinfo/keywords/place/placekt None Idinfo/keywords/stratum/stratkt None Idinfo/keywords/temporal/tempkt None Idinfo/taxonomy/keywtax/taxonkt None Idinfo/taxonomy/keywtax/taxonkey None Idinfo/taxonomy/taxonsys/classsys/classcit/citeinfo/pubdate Unpublished material Idinfo/taxonomy/taxonsys/classsys/classcit/citeinfo/geoform database Idinfo/taxonomy/taxoncl/taxonrn Species Idinfo/taxonomy/taxoncl/taxonrv Unknown Idinfo/taxonomy/taxoncl/common Unknown Idinfo/secinfo/secclass Sensitive Dataqual/lineage/method/methodid/methkt None Dataqual/lineage/method/methodid/methkey None Dataqual/lineage/method/methdesc Visual Microscopy Dataqual/lineage/method/methdesc[2] Analysis: XRF X-ray radiograph ESEM-EDS Spdoinfo/direct Point Spdoinfo/rastinfo/rasttype Voxel Spref/horizsys/geograph/geogunit Decimal degrees Spref/vertdef/altsys/altunits feet Spref/vertdef/altsys/altenc Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates Spref/vertdef/depthsys/depthem Attribute values Eainfo/detailed/attr/attrmfrq Unknown Distinfo/distrib/cntinfo/cntaddr/addrtype Mailing Metainfo/metc/cntinfo/cntaddr/addrtype Mailing Metainfo/metstdn FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metainfo/metstdv 1999 Metainfo/metsi/metsc None	Download