Blanket
Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased in 1951 by anthropologist Beate R. Salz (1913-2006) at a prison in Ayacucho, Peru, during MAI fieldwork supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 21/8557
- Barcode
- 218557.000
- Culture/People
- Quechua
- Collector
- Beate R. Salz, Non-Indian, 1913-2006
- Expedition sponsor
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated (Viking Fund, Inc.), 1941-
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- Indigenous Term
- manto
- Object Name
- Blanket
- Media/Materials
- Cotton yarn
- Techniques
- Woven
- Dimensions
- 107 x 103 cm
- Place
- Ayacucho; Huamanga Province; Ayacucho Region; Peru
- See related items
- Quechua
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- Record ID
- NMAI_233233
- Usage
- CC0
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