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Culture/People
Shipibo
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
War club
Media/Materials
Wood, canvas, paint
Techniques
Incised, painted
Object Type
Hunting/Fishing/Warfare: Warfare
Place
Río Pisqui; Nuevo Edén; Ucayali 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.