Medicine Bag

29808

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part

Curatorial Section: American

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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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