- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- 2 cobs of corn / maize [.1 - .2]; two textile squares stuffed with ? plants [.3 - .4] and some dried ? leaves [.5], wrapped with string
- Long description
- A box containing two cobs of corn / maize [.1 - .2]; two squares of textile stuffed with ? plants [.3 - .4] and some dried ? leaves [.5], wrapped with string. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/6/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Arica y Parinacota Region Arica Province Arica unnamed grave site
- Person
- Field collector William Warner Parry
- PRM source William Warner Parry
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date
- Date collected
- ?by 1884
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886 Found unentered: 2005
- Materials and processes
- Material Corn Plant, Material Textile, Material Plant, Material Maize Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 120 mm, Length: max 70 mm, Length: max 46 mm, Length: max 60 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.205.3.1 Accession number: 2004.205.3.2 Accession number: 2004.205.3.3 Accession number: 2004.205.3.4 Accession number: 2004.205.3.5
- Research and responses
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]
Search terms: Death, Food and Drink, Textile, Specimen, Religion, Food, Grave Good, Unidentified Object, Amulet