Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Santiago, Chile); acquired by MAI in 1930 through an exchange with the Museo National that was negotiated by Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) during the MAI's Thea Heye-Lothrop Expedition to Chile.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Mapuche
- Previous owner
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Museo Nacional, Santiago)
- Expedition
- Mrs. Thea Heye Chile Expedition (1929-1930) (Mrs. Thea Heye - Lothrop Expedition)
- Expedition leader
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Name
- Spurs
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide, metal, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Animal Tack and Animal Husbandry
