Clothing/garment part/fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1000–1470 (Late Intermediate period)
- Culture/People
- probably Chancay (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Major Otto Holstein, Non-Indian, 1883-1934
- Seller
- Major Otto Holstein, Non-Indian, 1883-1934
- Presenter/funding source
- James Bishop Ford (James B. Ford), Non-Indian, 1844-1928
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased from local residents between 1922 and 1927 by amateur archaeologist Major Otto Holstein (1883-1934, U.S. Army, employed by the Northern Peru Mining and Smelting Company and president of the Trujillo Archaeological Society); purchased by MAI from Major Holstein in 1927 using funds donated by MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Place
- Chan Chan; Trujillo Province; La Libertad Region; Peru (inferred)
- See related items
- Chancay (archaeological culture)
- Clothing/Garments
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 15/7395
- Barcode
- 157395.000
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments
- Object Name
- Clothing/garment part/fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Camelid hair yarn
- Techniques
- Woven
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_168787