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Object Number 46-77-30/8003
Display Title Mummy mask and torso, woman
Descriptions
Object Description Head: bag of heavy 1-2 cotton plainweave (2s-plied) stuffed with avocado leaves. Face covered with fine plainweave colored with red-orange pigment. Eyes, nose, mouth cut from silver sheet metal, glued on. Bangs of black human hair(?) or dyed vegetal fiber(?) attached across forehead. Torso formed from plainweave cotton cloth folded into cylinder. Breats of plainweave stuffed with "cotton cloth" and stitched on.
Inventory Description Organic, mummy mask and torso, woman, body - brown cotton plainweave, face - cot
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
  • Raw Material
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Chancay
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / <State> / <County> / <City> / Zapallan
Intrasite Grave Y
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast; Chillon Valley
Dimensions Overall: 75 x 36 x 11 cm (29 1/2 x 14 3/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 46-77-30/8003
Provenance
Collector Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (12/1940- 11/1944)
Donor Donated by Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer (11/26/1946)
Donor Donated by Mr. Donald C. Scott (11/26/1946)

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