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Culture/People
Ticuna (Tucuna)
Collector
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Previous owner
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Seller
Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
Object Name
Painting
Media/Materials
Bark cloth
Techniques
Painted
Dimensions
146 x 256 cm
Object Type
Painting/Drawing/Print
Place
Río Amazonas (Amazon River); Mariasú; Maynas Province; Loreto Region; Peru
Collection History
Collected between 1965 and 1966 by Nicole H. Maxwell (1905-1998, a pioneering researcher of traditional South American Native medicine and ethnobotany from the 1940s through the 1980s); purchased by MAI from Nicole H. Maxwell in 1967.