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# Dress-pin

Copper alloy hair- or dress-pin finial in the shape of a flat, stylised bird (possibly representing a hoopoe) with an erect crest or comb, pointed beak and an incised dot for the eye. The straight tail extends horizontally from the body, which is decorated with incised bands. The shaft is missing.

- **Kind:** artefact

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3895](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-3895) · Pramāṇa
