Copal
- Museum number:
- 3-273
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000273
- Alternate number:
- 273 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Description:
- Copal (transparent resin) Remarks: "Used as both medicine and incense" Tag "de Oaxaca, Huehuetenango. Copal de Comajaca
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Comajaca, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Legacy documentation:
-