- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Skin robe
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1902
- Date collected
- By 1902
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Skin
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.67.2
- Research and responses
nutria also called COYPU (Myocastor coypus), semi-aquatic South American rodent usually placed with the hutia in the family Capromyidae (order Rodentia), sometimes classified in a separate family, Myocastoridae. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 11/4/2000]
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