Pendants

27852E

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 27852E
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Culture Area Andean
Locus from a mummy
Section American
Materials Shell | Carnelian
Technique Inlaid
Iconography Human Figure | Tooth | Claw | Foot
Description

human figure of shell inlaid with dot decoration and 5 beads (3 long beads-1 molar tooth of shell,1 squared bead or pendant of carnelian, 2 crab claws? of shell, 2 pendants 1 foot);1 rather conical "one pendant missing".

Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 994b-i - Field No SF

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