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Holdings: 35mm slide: 1243
World Region: South America
Region: Andean South America
Country: Peru
Period: 300 BC - AD 800
Culture: Nazca
Description: Fig. 47. "Chuspa" or little bag to carry medicinal herbs or "coca". Its fabric looks like needlework and has geometric drawings. It is made out of vicuna wool in dark red, dark brown, and light sienna colors. It measures folded 14 centimeters wide by 12 centimeters long. Fig. 48. Penate engraved on a tiger or puma fang. It represents a warrior carrying in its hands a trophy head which is perforated so that it can be hung. It is 7 centimeters l
Image Categories: :; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Metal
Source Type Detail: Book Citation: "Peru Joyas, Telas, Ceramica; Coleccion del Professor Moises Saenz," by Moisés Sáenz, translated by Maria G. Brooke, edited by Herlinda Treviño de Sáenz; Fig. 47 - 50. Mexico, 1947.

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Full citation: "Fig. 47. "Chuspa" or little bag to carry medicinal herbs or "coca". Its fabric looks like needlework and has geometric drawings. It is made out of vicuna wool in dark red, dark brown, and light sienna colors. It measures folded 14 centimeters wide by 12 centimeters long. Fig. 48. Penate engraved on a tiger or puma fang. It represents a warrior carrying in its hands a trophy head which is perforated so that it can be hung. It is 7 centimeters l". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-2486/2486. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 23, 2024.