1886.2.72

Collection type

Object

Description

Bone bodkin

Long description

Bone bodkin formed from a section of metatarsal of a vicuña. It has been carved to a tapering point and has a lateral groove around the wider end. [SM (Verve) 17/3/2016]

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 Vicuna Bone Camelid Animal, Process Carved

Dimensions

Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 125 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.2.72

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]

A "vicuña" is a South American camelid similar to an alpaca [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicuña accessed 17/03/2016] [SM (Verve) 17/3/2016]

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)

Search terms: Death, Religion, Tool, Textile, Mummy, Grave Good, Awl