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Coca or lime spoon/dipper (Image withheld, pending review)
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of José A. Gayoso (1898-1970, a landowner in Chongoyape, Peru, who sidelined in excavating and selling antiquities); purchased by MAI from José Gayoso in 1930.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- AD 900–1470 (Late Intermediate period)
- Catalog Number
- 17/8629
- Barcode
- 178629.000
- Culture/People
- probably Chimú (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- José A. Gayoso (José Galloso), Non-Indian, 1898-1970
- Seller
- José A. Gayoso (José Galloso), Non-Indian, 1898-1970
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Object Name
- Coca or lime spoon/dipper (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Copper
- Techniques
- Hammered
- Place
- Jayanca; Lambayeque Province; Lambayeque Region; Peru
- See related items
- Chimú (archaeological culture)
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Record ID
- NMAI_191253
- Usage
- CC0
