Knitted striped coca bag with three 'fingers' on one end. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/1/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Knitted striped coca bag with three 'fingers' on one end. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/1/2006]
Long description: Coca bag? in cross-knit loop stitch, with no seams and 3 finger-like projections at the base (these may be for lime, c.f. 1987.15.10). Horizontally striped in brown and cream. At the top is a band of dark brown balanced plain weave, also seamless. Handle of twisted yarn.
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Unknown
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period: Date made: 200 BC - AD 600 Archaeological period: Paracas, uncertain Archaeological period: Nasca, uncertain
Date collected: By 1934
Acquisition information: Purchased: 27/08/1934 Found unentered: 02/1987
Materials and processes: Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Process Knitted, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 370 mm, Width: max 160 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1934.70.47
Research and responses: Attribution to Early Intermediate Period by LM. Tentative dating on grounds of cross-knit loop stitch. LM.

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