False Head

Mummy Head

33464

From: Peru | Huaca Paraiso

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 33464
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Huaca Paraiso
Culture Area Andean
Locus From the Huaca Paraiso at the entrance to the seaward opening valley of Marques (watered by the river of Chillon)
Section American
Materials Cloth | Cord | Shell | Hair
Description

False head of a mummy made of brown and white striped cloth, eyes of diamond shaped pieces of shell with pitched knot of cord through central perforation. False hair

Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3436 - Field No SF

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