Grater; made of wood; one end embedded with wires. For grating manioc and sweet potato. Bits of wire driven in. Made by men, used by women, chiefly by chincha. 48.5 cm long.
Donor:
Esther L. Matteson
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
Piro Indians, Lower Urubamba River, Peru
Culture or time period:
Mashco-Piro
Collector:
Esther L. Matteson
Collection date:
1949
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1951
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
length 48.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #96: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 20, 1967–April 20, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971), S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979), and S1983-1984 #14: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Anderson (Hupa) (September 19, 1983–September 26, 1983)