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Hat, knotted
Object Number 42-12-30/3384
Display Title Hat, knotted
Descriptions
Object Description Hat; at one side an upright wooden stick wrapped with cotton yarn and ending in large tassel of agave fiber. Other stick missing. Dark brown camelid yarns (z-2s) attached to the wrapped stick and knotted into a net (3.5 cm./side; mesh). Knots wrapped with camelid yarns: red, yellow, purple, white cotton; these also bind sides of two meshes together altering the square shapes and probably creating a pattern.
Inventory Description Organic, woven hat, brown knotted net, knots wrapped in pink and yellow yarn, po
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late horizon
  • Late Nazca?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Additional Geographic Terms South coast
Materials Cotton, Camelid, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 26 x 18.5 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 42-12-30/3384
Provenance
Collector Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1941-1942)
Donor Donated by Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer (1942)
Donor Donated by Mr. Donald C. Scott (1942)

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