Clothes pin

Probably tin bronze tupu with four rings as the head. This one also dates from Ecuador, Late Horizon.‖ The tupu is a clothing pin, used to secure the shawl (aqsu) that women wore. They were used singly or in pairs and came in almost all sizes and types of metal. The tupu was used much less on the coast than in the highlands. This can be explained by the colder climate of the highlands, where a sha…