False Head
Fabric
Staff
33232
From: Peru | Marques | Huaca El Palmo
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 33232 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Marques | Huaca El Palmo |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Silver | Reed (plant) | Thread |
| Description | False head of a mummy (with silver eyes) made of stuff cloth, covering fabric, and staff. The staff consisting of reed sticks wrapped with thread, seems broken off from wrapped crosses and sticks tied in with bead |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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