- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Short plaited grass cord. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/2/2006]
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1000 - 1470 Date made: Regional Development Period
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1933
- Materials and processes
- Material Grass Fibre Plant, Process Plaited, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 163 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1933.24.55
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Report by Sabine Pusch A Grave Group From Quillagua, Northern Chile, 1988. Contains an analysis of the collection, including diagrams, designed to ascertain the collection's archaeological context. [EB 3/12/2001]
- Associated publications
- Pusch, S. 1988. A Grave group from Quillagua, Northern Chile. Unpublished undergraduate dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, UCL. On file at PRM, RDF for 1933.24. [Dan Hicks 27/09/2012]
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