Explain what the purpose was for your object. Explain who used it.
The object that I finally decided to create (no, I’m sorry, but Baby Yoda shall come later, possibly for TSA…) are pins (tupùs) or lime dippers. Oui, lime dippers are a real thing, and they are exactly what they sound like. There weren’t a lot of information about these fascinating curios, but it appears that the majority of these special pins come from Calima in Columbia, with some tupùs found in Recuay, Peru. The lime dippers were utilized to dip and administer lime in a coca ceremony, in which shamans use the coca leaf (a popular and ancient leaf that’s used even now) to tell their guests deeper insights about themselves and their possible futures.
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Lime-dipper, probably used to extract the lime from a gold flask. It is made of gold or tumbaga by lost-wax casting in the form of a long pin with a bell at the upper end. Some of these dippers were also hammered.)
As aforementioned, these pins are usually used in ceremonies where
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