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Doll in the form of a mother with child

Chancay, 999-1399

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Chancay

Doll in the form of a mother with child

Chancay, 999-1399

Physical Qualities Cotton, camelid fiber, dyes, wood, straw (?), string (?), 5 7/8 × 4 15/16 × 1 3/4 in. (15 × 12.5 × 4.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of A. Harvey and Phyllis K. Schreter, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.414
Brown fiber hair, mother and child's features and headbands are embroidered in red, eyes outlined in purple, mother's teeth are yellow. Extremities are twigs wrapped in red yarn. Both figures wrapped in cloth. White ?string wraps body of mother under cloth.

Culture

Chancay

2000–2000

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