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Unidentified Wari (Huari) maker

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Pre-Columbian

Leather and plant fiber

Overall: 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, Class of 1921W

165.3.15559

Geography

Place Made: Pachacamac, Peru, South America

Object Name

Transportation: Land, Animal

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, (1899-1976), Class of 1921, United States Ambassador to Peru, 1955-1956; Mrs. Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, 3 Pleasant Street, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1965.

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