Hairpin

This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The recorded medium is bone. Its recorded length is 16 cm long. Accession number 1985.214.116, gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985.

This description is a direct summary of the museum's own record, not an independent assessment. It is awaiting editorial rewriting; the facts it states are the ones the holding institution asserts.