Fruit Rind

Thread

31412.10

Location: On Display in the Ancient Food & Flavor

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Sun Temple

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 31412.10
Current Location Ancient Food & Flavor - On Display
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Sun Temple
Culture Area Andean
Date Made 1460-1532 CE
Section American
Materials Fruit (uncertain) | Fiber
Description

"Section of skin (in it fruit skin?) and thread on cobb fragment.

From Basket 31412.1 with total contents: 12 spindles, 8 balls (large & small) of thread, calabash with fruit and thread, 12 thorn needles, 5 beans of string, fruit pods, hair and section of skin

Height 6 cm
Outside Diameter 7 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

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