Ceramic rattle in the form of a grotesque human figure

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic rattle in the form of a grotesque human figure
Long description: Hard-baked, fine-grained, broad-headed, grotesque pottery figure: a rattle
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Modelled
Dimensions: Height: max 190 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.67.1 PR Cat other PR nos: 2160
Research and responses: In Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections there is a handwritten list [P141] headed 'A catalogue of M.General [sic - Major General] Pitt Rivers' Anthropological Collection Objects illustrating Animal Form conventionalised in Ornamentation from different countries' which seems to be a list of all items which were associated with the display entitled 'Illustrations of Human and Animal form Cases 92 - 93' in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums. A photocopy of this list is held by Alison Petch [AP 23/03/2005]

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