2005.86.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Unquantified assemblage of ?50 objects, including corn cobs, animal bone and textile fragments

Long description

A box containing a cob of corn / maize with nuts still on, an empty cob, animal jaw bones, other bones, a piece of textile, an animal (?bird) skull, snail shells, and various unidentifiable pieces of 'matter' [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/6/2005]

Geographical reference

Chile

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile

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 Animal Skull, Material Textile, Material Plant, Material Maize Plant, Material Animal Bone, Material Snail-Shell Animal, Process Woven

Dimensions

Length: max 175 mm box

Object numbers

Accession number: 2005.86.1

Research and responses

Despite lack of documentation, it is quite possible, as suggested by the note by AS, that these objects are part of the assemblage from Arica, Chile. [Dan Hicks 13/09/2012]

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