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2005.7.1

Ball of wool

2005.7.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ball of wool
Geographical reference
Chile
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile
Arica y Parinacota Region Arica Province Arica
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1886?, uncertain
Date collected
By 1886?
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886, uncertain Found unentered: 2005
Materials and processes
Material Wool Yarn Animal
Dimensions
Length: max 65 mm bundle
Object numbers
Accession number: 2005.7.1
Research and responses

It seems probable that all of Holland's collections came to the OUMNH via George Rolleston, see Rolleston papers Ashmolean Museum GR/A/1 Holland letters [AP 26/09/2012]

See biographies for more information about Swinton Colthurst Holland [AP 28/04/2009]

Arica is in northern Chile's Arica and Parinacota Region, located only 18 km (11 mi) south of the border with Peru. It was originally a part of Peru but it was lost after a plebiscite arranged in the Treaty of Ancon in 1883 as part of the results of the war of the Pacific. It is therefore to be considered part of Chile not Peru. [AS 14/12/2010]

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