Bird (uncertain)

28555

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 28555
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton | Wool | Wood
Iconography Bird
Description

Bird wrapped in cotton. Bird is of coarsely needle-woven yellow cotton: red neck, head, and beak, throat brown; large eyes ringed white; triangular wings and forked tail of wrapped cane splints with many strands of cotton wrapped across these frames.

Length 13.97 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 742C - Field No SF

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