Mussel shell. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Mussel shell. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/9/2017]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Lima Region Ancon Necropolis of Ancon Mummy I
Person: Field collector William Alison Dyke Acland; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Acland collection
Date
Date collected: Before 1882
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes: Material Shell
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height: max 85 x 45 x 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.2.53
Research and responses: For further information about Commander W.A.D. Acland see Biographies file. He served in Peru in the early 1880s and may have collected these objects at that time [AP 1/9/99]
Associated publications: Note in the 'Oxford University Gazette' vol.XIII no.436, 28 November 1882: 'Donation to the University Museum. The Delegates of the Museum announce that four Peruvian Mummies, from Angon near Lima, presented by Commander W. Acland, R.N., have been opened and examined; and that a series of objects of ethnological interest obtained from them are now on view in the University Museum. These objects comprise children's toys, grotesque ornaments, articles of food, and specimens of coloured fabrics, with patterns and figures of animals, characteristic of Peruvian art.' (FL 6-2-06)

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