Stone sinker bound to a line of cotton.

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone sinker bound to a line of cotton.
Long description: Sinker of brown stone, tapering to a point each end, bound at each end to a line of cotton. [MJD 27/04/2009]
Geographical reference: Chile
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile; Arica y Parinacota Region Arica Province Arica unnamed grave site
Person: Field collector Matthew or Mathew James Harrison; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1868 Archaeological period: Inka Inca
Date collected: 1868
Acquisition information: Transferred: 05/10/1950
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Ochre, Process Bound, Process Dyed, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 165 mm, Width: max 24 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1011 Other numbers: 11
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]