2 serrated sting ray bones bound together with rush

Collection type: Object
Description: 2 serrated sting ray bones bound together with rush
Long description: Unidentified object, possibly an amulet, consisting of two serrated sting ray bones bound together with rush.
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 Stingray Spine Fish, Material Plant Fibre, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 80 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1012 Other numbers: 17
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]

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