Object Biography: Cast Bronze Staff Finial, Peru (North or Central Coast) Formal Description and Materiality The object under consideration is a cast bronze staff finial attributed to the pre-Columbian cultures of Peru's north or central coast. Executed in copper-arsenic bronze through the lost-wax casting method, the ...

Introduction: The Cap Fragment as Material Testimony Within the expanding discourse of global heritage textiles, few artifacts carry the interpretive weight of the cap fragment. As a standalone object of study, it resists the completeness of the finished garment and instead offers what curators might call a "material t...