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Pigment
Object Number 38-28-30/4181B
Display Title Pigment
Descriptions
Object Description 4 raw cotton bundles with pigment and seeds: Red pigment: cinnabar (mercuric sulphide).: V I 17 Cotton Gossypuim probably peruvinnm Cav colored with Bixa Orellana L. (Onnatto) Det. by Paul A. Vestal Botanical Musuem, Harvard University July 8 1938: 30/481 V I 17 This red pigmant is not that y 13ixd Orellana L. Lid in the minusl Cinnabar ( Merceuric sulphide). The two "suls" are nut seeds, but are pellets /a mixture y illa mineral sphalerite (Zinc Sulfide) and are igunis substance, wither are ril a way. Cotton idutioul are gosspium botbadense L. Ma Torule.
Inventory Description Organic, pigment, cinnabar
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Pigment
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Paracas Necropolis
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Pisco Province / Paracas / Paracas Necropolis
Intrasite Mummy bundle
Materials Cinnabar
Quantity 1 bag
Label on object 38-28-30/4181

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Seeds
38-28-30/4181C Seeds
Raw Material
Seed
Paracas Necropolis
Cotton, raw
38-28-30/4181A Cotton, raw
Raw Material
Fiber
Paracas Necropolis
4 raw cotton bundles with pigment and seeds
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Fiber
Raw Material
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Organic
Paracas Necropolis
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Seed
Paracas Necropolis
Textile, painted, fragment
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Woven Fiber
Raw Material
Pisco
Textile, painted, fragment
39-95-30/2103 Textile, painted, fragment
Raw Material
Woven Fiber
Pisco
Grave marker, painted textile
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Woven Fiber
Ancon
Raw cotton balls, some dirty, with small fragments of twigs & seeds
2003.1.902 Raw cotton balls, some dirty, with small fragments of twigs & seeds
Cotton
Cotton boll
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Fiber
Raw Material
Huacho
Image Not Available for Earth containing Cinnabar and a yellow pigment
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Raw Material
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