Crown
28549
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 28549 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Found on the breast of a mummy. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Feather |
| Description | Crown of feathers. Diagonally crossed fine splints, covered on both exterior and interior with finely woven cloth upon which is worked feather mosaic in two broad separated portions of uncoverd cloth. The design is of joined concentric diamonds, plain and stepped and similar half-diamonds along the borders. Of a style distinctive of north coast Chimu. Feathers: macaw, tanager, and unidentified. |
| Height | 15.24 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1731 - Field No SF |
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