Work Basket
Object Number:
33431
Current Location:
Collections storage
Provenience:
Peru
Huaca Paraiso
Culture Area:
Andean
Locus:
On the left of the road from Chuquitanta to Marques, near to the stream Chillon.
Section:
American
Materials:
Fiber
Reed (plant)
Clay
Seed
Description:
weaver's baskets with contents from 33432 to 33435. Also: 22 spindles with whorls and thread, and 10 without thread, 12 spindles with no whorls and no thread, and also a broken thick spindle, and broken reed spindle, 4 spindles with no whorls and thread, a long knitting needle, and a shorter knitting needle, a small weaving stick, 2 beans, peanut kernel, broken whorl, 4 cones of white wool or cotton, 1 ball fo white thread
Credit Line:
Max Uhle, William Pepper Peruvian Expedition, Funded by Phebe A. Hearst
Other Number:
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Penn in the World: Twelve Decades at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (08 May 2008 - 28 Sep 2008)
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