Stirrup Fragment
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1700-1879
label: associated date
content: 1650 - 1750
notes: label: Description
content: This elaborate, low relief forged and molded iron stirrup, or <I>estribo de cruz,</I> was found by members of the F. V. Hayden Survey, a U.S. Geological Survey of the West, in the Burro Mountains of New Mexico about 1874. These so-called "Conquistador stirrups" were used by the Spanish cavalry in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in later periods for parade display.
label: Description
content: Europeans first came to this area in the 1590's. The trade and interaction that occured between them and the Native Americans fundamentaly changed the cultural, economic, and physical landscape of the area.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Mexico
label: location where used
content: Mexico
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0077.01
label: catalog number
content: 035395
label: accession number
content: 2006.0077
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0077.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stirrup Fragment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: stamped (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: wrought (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.3 cm x 27.8 cm x 4.5 cm; 7 19/32 in x 10 15/16 in x 1 25/32 in