Mummy textile wrapping
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ignacio Galindo
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Skeleton transferred to Phys. Anthrop. Jan. 19, 1942 [see P45581]. See memo filed with accession papers and dated March 17, 1958. Also see Accession no. 108499, Cat. Nos. 349234 - 349240?" Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on textile band with this catalogue no.: Band, Coyote Cave, Coahuila, Mexico. This band was one of many items collected by Edward Palmer in Monterrey, Nuevo León, from Ignacio Galindo in 1880 for the Peabody Museum of Harvard and later exchanged with the Smithsonian Institution for ethnological material. Dimensions: 20.5 inches (folded and knotted) x 2.5 inches. Technique: This is a two-piece band with one set of ends tied together (some of the braids have come undone). It is woven with a discontinuous warp. Thread Count: Warp = 14/in.; Weft = 9/in. Fibers: Warp = 2-ply, plant fiber (probably Agave lechuguilla), light brown, dark brown, and orange, Z-spin, S-twist. Weft = 2-ply Agave lechuguilla yarn, light brown, dark brown, and orange, Z-spin, S-twist. Design: The bands have rectangular sections alternating in light brown, dark brown, and orange.
label: Notes
content: Radiocarbon datex SI-1177 & SI-1153 from this bundle.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Coahuila, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009462
label: USNM Number
content: A45581-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mummy Wrapping