Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1911 by Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950, Director of the American Geographical Society from 1915 to 1935) during research in South America; donated to MAI by Isaiah Bowman in 1917.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha)
- Collector
- Isaiah Bowman, Non-Indian, 1878-1950
- Previous owner
- Isaiah Bowman, Non-Indian, 1878-1950
- Donor
- Isaiah Bowman, Non-Indian, 1878-1950
- Object Name
- Ear ornament
- Media/Materials
- Coconut shell, seed/seeds, cordage
- Techniques
- Strung
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
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