1886.1.1035.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Miniature woollen bag

Long description

Very small woven bag, padded. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/1/2006] Warp faced plain weave in camelid fibre. End selvedges at top of bag; side selvedges may be present but hard to define. LM.

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: 1476-1534 Date made: Circa 1600 Archaeological period: Inka Inca

Date collected

1868

Acquisition information

Transferred: 05/10/1950

Materials and processes

Material Wool Textile Animal, Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Process Stitched, Process Padded, Process Woven

Dimensions

Width: max 40 mm, Length: max 40 mm, Height: max 20 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.1035.2 Other numbers: 9a

Research and responses

Note that this was the only item numbered 1886.1.1035 in the original system but unfortunately an item [the next item, 1886.1.1035.1] was found unentered and given the number 1886.1.1035 .1 rather than .2 [AP 10/2/99] Date of c. 1600 AD typed on card.

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]

See a description of the earthquake and tsunami by the University of Southern California Tsunami Research Group here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/peru/ptsu_1868.html [El.B 22/09/2011]

Search terms: Bag, Death, Children and Childcare, Religion, Grave Good