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Kapsiki

Currency Piece

Kapsiki, 1800

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Kapsiki

Currency Piece

Kapsiki, 1800

Physical Qualities Iron, 52.1 H x 9.5 W x 10.8 D cm.
Credit Line Gift of Barry and Toby T. Hecht, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 2001.426
With a coil at one end, the other end in a form resembling an elongated human figure without legs and a large loop near the coiled end.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; Barry and Toby T. Hecht, Bethesda, MD; purchased by donor in 1994 from a New York dealer.
BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.

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