1952.7.89.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Work-basket [.1] containing wool, yarn and spindles. [El.B 01/12/2011]

Long description

Work-basket [.1] containing wool, yarn and spindles. The basket is twill plaited, with a lid like a flap attached to the back. [El.B 01/12/2011]

Geographical reference

Peru

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru

Coast

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Date

Date collected

By 1952

Acquisition information

Donated: 1952

Materials and processes

Material Plant Fibre, Material Wood Plant, Process Twill Plaited, Process Basketry

Dimensions

Height: max 63 mm, Width: max 155 mm, Length: max 345 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1952.7.89.1

Associated publications

Illustrated in colour as plate 8 on page 94 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘Peruvian coast. Rectangular work basket with hinged lid. Twill plaiting over flat ribs. The basket contains 140 spindles, some decorated with painted or pyro-engraved lines. It also contains balls of camelid fibre and cotton yarn, as well as raw cotton. L: 345 mm, W: 155 mm; H: 63 mm. Donated by Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1952. 1952.7.89’ [MJD 18/01/2013] Illustrated with a line drawing in the leaflet 'Basketry in The Pitt Rivers Museum', devised by Felicity Wood with the Oxfordshire Basketmakers, 2001. It is also featured on the website www.basket.prm.ox.ac.uk [please note this URL was found to be inactive in July 2010, please see http://basketry.ashmolean.org]. [JN 14/11/2001; MN 16/07/2010] Illustrated in colour as Figure 17.6 on page 376 of 'South America', by Bill Sillar and Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 358-382. Caption (same page): 'Figure 17.6 Ancient Peruvian work-basket from the Wellcome collection (PRM Accession Number 1952.7.89), containing balls of dyed cotton thread, bundles of vicuña wool, 104 spindles, some with spun yarn still wound round them, painted pottery whorls, and bundles of raw cotton and woollen yarn in red, yellow, blue, brown, pink and black.'. [MJD 04/07/2014]

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