Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; part of a collection assembled by Manuel B. Zavaleta (1862-1925, an Argentine police chief and public official) of material excavated and looted from archaeological sites in Argentina in the 1880s and 1890s; exhibited as part of Manuel Zavaleta's collection at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904; purchased by the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) from Manuel Zavaleta in 1904 or 1905; acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Field Museum in 1918.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Inka (Inca) (archaeological) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Manuel B. Zavaleta, Non-Indian, 1862-1925
- Previous seller
- Manuel B. Zavaleta, Non-Indian, 1862-1925
- Previous owner
- Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago Natural History Museum), 1893-
- Date created
- AD 1300-1500
- Object Name
- Weaving shuttle
- Media/Materials
- Camelid bone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Weaving tools/equipment
