False Head
Mummy Head
33464
From: Peru | Huaca Paraiso
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 33464 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Huaca Paraiso |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From the Huaca Paraiso at the entrance to the seaward opening valley of Marques (watered by the river of Chillon) |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cloth | Cord | Shell | Hair |
| Description | False head of a mummy made of brown and white striped cloth, eyes of diamond shaped pieces of shell with pitched knot of cord through central perforation. False hair |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 3436 - Field No SF |
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