Tube: carved: inlaid
- Museum number:
- 4-2762
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21040002762
- Accession number:
- Acc.81
- Description:
- Hollow bone tube nicely carved with bird figures and inlaid with turquoise, probably an ear plug. Counterpart of 2763.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Grave 6, Moche Site F, Moche valley
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Grave 3
- Culture or time period:
- Early Chimú (Moche Civilization) (ca. 100 BC–700 AD)
- Collector:
- Max Uhle
- Materials:
- Bone (material)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Accession date:
- July 24, 1903
- Department:
- Ancient Peru
- Loans:
- S1945-1946 #3: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (dates unknown)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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