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Object Number 72-23-30/6633
Display Title Ceramic tangas with polychrome designs
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ceramic, tangas womens pubic cover, ornament, curved, triangular, three perforations total, one perforation at each point, brown on white painted fine-line geometric and linear design on one side, opposite side plain white, mended, fragments missing
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Brazil / <State> / Pacoval Island
Additional Geographic Terms Pacoval Island (mound)
Dimensions Overall: 12.9 x 14.9 x 0.7 cm (5 1/16 x 5 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 72-23-30/6633; 25-6.5; [illegible] 10 [written on adhered paper]; Paco.
Credit Line Peabody Museum Expedition, C. F. Hartt, Director, 1871-1872.
Provenance
Collector Dr. Charles Frederick Hartt (1871)
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (1871)

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