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San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere.

Dog Motif Stirrups

San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Peggy Tenison.

Dog Motif Stirrups

Place made:Cochabamba, Bolivia, South America
Date: late- 19th century
Dimensions:
h. 7 in. (17.8 cm); w. 5 in. (12.7 cm); d. 9 in. (22.9 cm), each
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere
Object number: 2000.31.7.a-b
Label Text
This style of covered wooden stirrups, known as “trompa de chancho” (pig’s horn), was popular in nineteenth-century Chile and the rest of the southern Andes. This style of stirrup was made with a variety of materials, such as iron, bronze, silver, leather, and wood. This pair is unusual because of the dogs carved into the front of the stirrups; these kinds of stirrups were usually decorated with geometric and floral designs.

Este estilo de estribos de madera cubiertos se conoce como “trompa de chancho,” que fue un estilo popular en el sur de los Andes en el siglo XIX. Se producían con una variedad de materiales como el hierro, bronce, plata, cuero y madera, y generalmente se decoraban con diseños geométricos y florales. Los estribos tallados con rostros de perro son una excepción inusual a este género.

(LA, 2020)
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