Weaving tool
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- Date created
- 1970-2000
- Culture/People
- possibly Quechua (attributed)
- Collector
- Elayne Zorn (Elayne Leslie Zorn), Non-Indian, 1952-2010
- Previous owner
- Elayne Zorn (Elayne Leslie Zorn), Non-Indian, 1952-2010
- Donor
- Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn, Non-Indian/Quechua
- Collection History
- Collected or acquired by anthropologist Elayne Zorn (1952-2010), who conducted research in Latin America and the U.S. from the early 1970s to about 2006; donated to NMAI by her son Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn in 2011.
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- Place
- Isla Taquile, Lago Titicaca (Lake Titicaca); Puno Province; Puno Region; Peru
- Island Name
- Isla Taquile
- See related items
- Quechua
- Weaving tools/equipment
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/8224
- Barcode
- 268224.000
- Object Type
- Weaving tools/equipment
- Native Term
- wich'una
- Object Name
- Weaving tool
- Media/Materials
- Llama bone
- Techniques
- Carved, incised
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 3.0 x 2.2 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_392837