1887.1.634

Collection type

Object

Description

Woollen basket (of wooden sticks and wool) containing fibre and yarn for weaving

Long description

This object comprises the following detachable parts: 1887.1.634.1 a work basket, 1887.1.634.2 spool of white yarn, 1887.1.634.3 spool of white yarn, 1887.1.634.4 a ball of red dish plant fibre yarn. 1887.1.634.5 a ball of white yarn [SM (Verve) 26/5/2016]

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

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Camelid Wool Yarn Animal, Material Pigment, Process Twined Woven, Process Dyed, Process Incised, Process Basketry, Process Wound, Material Vicuna Wool Camelid Yarn Animal

Dimensions

Diameter: max 20 mm, Length: max 75 mm, Length: max 80 mm, Diameter: max 32 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1887.1.634

Research and responses

Information from Penny Dransart on .633 (DOC): 'Small work basket constructed from three sticks bent into a U shape and lashed together at the base. The walls were formed by wrapped strands of white camelid fibre yarn, held in place by bands of weft twining in dyed camelid fibre yarn. The basket contains seven hanks of white camelid fibre yarn some of which are daubed in red paint, an incised bird bone and a stone spindle whorl.'

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: Death, Basketry, Textile, Religion, Basket, Grave Good, Yarn