Unknown artist, Ttipqui Pin, 1700s. Silver; 1⅜ × 13¾ × 2⅛ in. Gift of the Stapleton Foundation of Latin American Colonial Art, made possible by the Renchard family, 1990.419.

height: 1.375 in, 3.4925 cm; width: 13.75 in, 34.9250 cm; depth: 2.125 in, 5.3975 cm

Label: White tag

Mayer Center, Latin American Art

Latin American Art

After European contact, many tupu and ttipqui pins were made out of silver spoons or incorporated spoon designs, as seen here. It is hard to tell them apart today, but ttipquis tend to have longer shafts than tupus. The two types of pins became more like each other during the colonial period when tubular dresses went out of fashion.
-- Julie Wilson Frick, 2017

Collection of Daniel Casey Stapleton [1858-1920], Quito, Ecuador and Denver, CO, by 1914; bequeathed to Stella Hamilton Stapleton [1871-1965], 1920; bequeathed to Stellita Stapleton Renchard [1915-1982], Washington, D.C., 1965; Stapleton Foundation, Washington, D.C., after 1974; Gifted to the Denver Art Museum, December 1990

• “ReVision: Art in the Americas” — Denver Art Museum, 10/24/2021 – 7/17/2022
• ReVision: Art in the Americas, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, 7/1/23 - 9/17/23