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1887.1.514

Small woven bag with handle of twisted string. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/1/2006]

1887.1.514

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Collection type
Object
Description
Small woven bag with handle of twisted string. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/1/2006]
Long description
Warp-faced plain weave. Warp mainly brownish cotton with two stripes of finer spun darker brown cotton and two stripes of pink and yellow camelid fibre. Weft cotton. Warps and wefts 2-ply, Z-spun, S-plied. 2 end selvedges visible at top of bag; sides of bag oversewn with pink camelid fibre yarn on one side and cotton yarn on the other. Plied cotton handle attached at one corner only. LM.
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Unnamed site of grave
Date
Date collected
By 1886
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Textile, Material String, Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Woven, Process Twisted
Dimensions
Length: max 70 mm, Width: max 60 mm, Length: max 130 mm handle
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.514
Research and responses

It seems probable that all of Holland's collections came to the OUMNH via George Rolleston, see Rolleston papers Ashmolean Museum GR/A/1 Holland letters [AP 26/09/2012]

See biographies for more information about Swinton Colthurst Holland [AP 28/04/2009]

Search terms: Bag, Death, Cordage, Religion, Grave Good