Coin purse
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Aymara
- Collector
- Beate R. Salz, Non-Indian, 1913-2006
- Expedition sponsor
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated (Viking Fund, Inc.), 1941-
- Object Name
- Coin purse
- Media/Materials
- Wool yarn
- Techniques
- Knitted
- Dimensions
- 24 x 14 x 24 cm
- Object Type
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Native Term
- ch'uspita
- Place
- Southern Highlands; Peru
- Date created
- circa 1940
- Collection History
- Collected in 1951 by anthropologist Beate R. Salz (1913-2006) during MAI fieldwork supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
- Catalog Number
- 21/7385
- Barcode
- 217385.000
- See related items
- Aymara
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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