1887.1.712.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Specimens of vicuna wool prepared for spinning into yarn. [SM (Verve) 25/5/2016]

Long description

Specimens of vicugna wool of different three shades of brown/cream. The wool has been prepared for spinning. [SM (Verve) 25/5/2016]

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 Oxford University Museum of Natural History

PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1884

Date collected

?by 1884

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1886, uncertain Found unentered: 09/2000

Materials and processes

Material Vicuna Wool Camelid Animal

Dimensions

Length: max 185 mm approx

Object numbers

Accession number: 1887.1.712.2

Research and responses

The PRM holds a large quantity of material excavated from graves at Arica, Chile (part of Peru until it became part of Chile with the Treaty of Ancón in 1883), and collected by William Warner Parry. Arica is identified as the site on the box, but Ancon is given in the Accession Book entry. I believe that it is most likely that Ancon has mistakenly been listed, and that this is part of the material from Arica. I have therefore changed the country and region fields accordingly. See also the same mix-up with 1886.2.134 and 1884.59.1 [Dan Hicks 13/09/2012]

Search terms: Specimen, Textile, Death, Religion, Yarn, Grave Good