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Object Number 47-63-30/5756
Display Title Pick-up stick?
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden spindle wrapped with yellow woolen yarn, pyrograved - found in work basket #30/5737: Stick with abrupt point at one end, long tapered point at other. At abrupt end, two pyro-engraved bands. Yellow camelid yarn wound onto stick. Pick-up stick?
Inventory Description Organic, wood, tool, spindle, fiber wrapped, both ends pointed
Classification
  • Tool
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Intermediate period
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Materials Wood, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 21.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm (8 7/16 x 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 47-63-30/5756

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Pick-up stick
47-63-30/5757 Pick-up stick
Tool
Peru
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Tool
Peru
Stick, unworked
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Tool
Peru
Bobbin
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Tool
Peru
Bobbin
47-63-30/5755 Bobbin
Tool
Peru
Bobbin
47-63-30/5750 Bobbin
Tool
Peru
Bobbin
47-63-30/5754 Bobbin
Tool
Peru
Spindle
47-63-30/5751 Spindle
Tool
Peru
Bobbin
47-63-30/5752 Bobbin
Tool
Peru
Spindle, fragment
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Tool
Zapallan
Pick-up stick?
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Raw Material
Tool
Vista Alegre
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Tool
Nazca Province