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Object Number 38-28-30/4181C
Display Title Seeds
Descriptions
Object Description 4 raw cotton bundles with pigment and seeds: Seeds: pellets of a mixture and the mineral sphalerite (zinc sulphide) and an organic substance-either an oil or wax.: 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, seeds
Classification
  • Seed
  • Raw Material
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Paracas Necropolis
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Pisco Province / Paracas / Paracas Necropolis
Intrasite Mummy bundle
Materials Seed
Dimensions Overall: 0.9 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm (3/8 x 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 38-28-30/4181

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Cotton, raw
38-28-30/4181A Cotton, raw
Raw Material
Fiber
Paracas Necropolis
Pigment
38-28-30/4181B Pigment
Pigment
Raw Material
Paracas Necropolis
4 raw cotton bundles with pigment and seeds
38-28-30/4181 4 raw cotton bundles with pigment and seeds
Raw Material
Fiber
Paracas
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
46-77-30/9068B Cotton boll
Fiber
Raw Material
Huacho
Gourd
38-28-30/4200 Gourd
Organic
Paracas Necropolis
Bundle
87-61-30/54482 Bundle
Woven Fiber
Raw Material
Ancon
Maize kernel
38-28-30/4188 Maize kernel
Seed
Paracas Necropolis
Cotton seeds
26-7-10/95752 Cotton seeds
Seed
Ely Ranch Ruin
Cotton boll
87-61-30/54587 Cotton boll
Fiber
Ancon
Fiber bundles with seeds or beans
2005.1.190 Fiber bundles with seeds or beans
Fiber
Peru
Seed necklace - brown seeds attached to fiber cord by strings of small beads
43-10-30/4241 Seed necklace - brown seeds attached to fiber cord by strings of small beads
Necklace
few miles below Convento de Canelo's