Female doll
Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased in 1951 by anthropologist Beate R. Salz (1913-2006) in a daily market in Huancayo, 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
- 21/8596
- Barcode
- 218596.000
- 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
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Object Name
- Female doll
- Media/Materials
- Wood, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Place
- Jauja; Jauja Province; Junín Region; Peru
- See related items
- Quechua
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Record ID
- NMAI_233273
- Usage
- CC0
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