Medicine Bag
29826
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29826 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From a mummy bale |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Small medicine bags strung on cord. Were hung around the neck. White 16 small pouches, 14 of which are strung together on cotton yarns with alternating brown and white pouches. The pouches appear to be cotton plain weave. The pouches are each stitched along the two weft selvedges Color(s): Brown and white. |
| Length | 6.35 cm |
| Width | 3.81 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 423E - Field No SF |
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