Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1886.1.1021

Specimen of alpaca wool with skin attached

1886.1.1021

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Specimen of alpaca wool with skin attached
Long description
Alpaca skin with wool attached.
Geographical reference
Chile
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile
Arica y Parinacota Region Arica Province Arica unnamed grave site
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1868 Archaeological period: Inka Inca
Date collected
1868
Acquisition information
Transferred: 05/10/1950
Materials and processes
Material Alpaca Wool Camelid Yarn Animal, Material Animal Skin
Dimensions
Length: max 130 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1021 Other numbers: 21
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]

Search terms: Specimen, Death, Religion, Grave Good

Further items to explore