Wooden comb bound with yarn

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden comb bound with yarn
Long description: Double comb of wood, pieces bound with thread plait wire. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/12/2004]
Geographical reference: Chile
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile; Arica y Parinacota Region Arica Province Arica unnamed grave site
Person: Field collector William Warner Parry; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Inka Inca
Date collected: ?by 1884
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1886 Exchanged: 1946
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Yarn, Process Plaited, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 60 mm, Width: max 64 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1887.1.608
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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