Medicine Bag
29808
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 29808 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part |
Culture Area | Andean |
Locus | Found with mummy |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton | Wool |
Description | Small, strung around the shoulders of a mummy bale. White, red and white, blue and white, brown and white. 14 medicine pouches. The pouches are strung together with a bast fiber cord. The pouches have various patterns and colors. There is one orange pouch, three brown pouches, two white pouches, two brown pouches with vertical line designs, five red pouches with a checker board pattern, and one blue pouch with vertical line designs. No measurements were taken due to the nature of the object as a composite of 14 pouches. Color(s): white, red and white, blue and white, brown and white, orange, brown. |
Length | 5.08 cm |
Width | 6.35 cm |
Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
Other Number | 443D - Field No SF |
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