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.
