Mineral used in various remedies for the fright of children

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Object Number 14-4-30/85952

Display Title Mineral used in various remedies for the fright of children

Descriptions

Inventory Description Mineral, raw material, fragments, irregularly shaped

Classification

Mineral

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Quichua?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

South America / Peru

Materials Stone

Dimensions Overall: 3.5 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm (1 3/8 x 1 5/16 x 9/16 in.)

Quantity 2

Label on object 85952

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	22-2-50/B3467	'pot' of remedies of native doctor called "mut matipla"	Raw Material Pot	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3465	Remedies: "pot is made of hollowed-out mit-like fruit of tree	Bowl Raw Material	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3466	Remedies "spoon" for taking medicine	Raw Material Bowl	Cameroon
	14-4-30/85957	Tunhusllampu, used same as #85956	Mineral	Peru
Image Not Available for Rikamantci macho, powdered and mixed with gypsum to join fractures	14-4-30/85965	Rikamantci macho, powdered and mixed with gypsum to join fractures	Mineral	Peru
Image Not Available for Fragment unidentified metallic mineral	46-73-10/54811	Fragment unidentified metallic mineral	Raw Material	Los Hornos
	14-4-30/85956	Pukallampu, used in ointment, a decoction for tumors and bad urine	Mineral	Peru
$Patcas, virgin gypsum mixed as a plaster to join fractures$	14-4-30/85959	Patcas, virgin gypsum mixed as a plaster to join fractures	Mineral	Peru
	14-4-30/85974	Ruki, clay, used against air (wind)	Mineral	Peru
	14-4-30/85954	Makcu, a remedy with powder of black maize (flower of ?) and other +	Floral	Peru
	35-31-50/1210	Gourd containing remedy for tuberculosis	Jar Raw Material	Cameroon
	46-73-10/54791	Flake-block of white mineral substance possibly used for paint. rock gypsum.	Raw Material	Los Muertos

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