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Object Number 79-14-20/17644
Display Title Tortillas, thick
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tortilla fragments, thick.
Classification
  • Floral
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico / San Luis Potosi
Dimensions Overall: 8.8 x 7.9 x 1.3 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 13
Label on object 17644; Poison
Credit Line Peabody Museum Expedition, E. Palmber, Director, 1878-1879.
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (1878)
Collector Dr. Edward Palmer (1878)

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